Damn - my replies have not been going to the list...
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 10:47 +1100, Ron Savage wrote:
> Hi Eric
>
> On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 16:21 -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> > # from Ron Savage
> > # on Saturday 21 March 2009 16:00:
> >
> > >compiler: mandatory, optional, not_needed?
> > >
> > >And, yes, I understand that if M::B wants to be all things to all
> > >people, we're just talking about the relevance of this new key to Perl
> > >modules.
> >
> > Well, META.yml might like to be all things to all people, but I haven't
> > heard from them, so we might as well do perl well.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > compiler_required: true|false|maybe
>
> I don't like the maybe. How about optional?
>
> > Is there a situation where a certain sort of compiler is needed? But
> > then, maybe that can be handled more easily with an Alien:: package.
>
> Let's leave compiler_type for another time.
>
> > Hmm, what if there were a module named 'compiler'? Not sure I want to
> > play that game through though.
>
> Yep - gotta draw the line somewhere...
>
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