# from David Golden
# on Monday 25 February 2008 12:50:
>Assuming that a recent CPAN.pm is installed that knows what to do with
>configure_requires.
>
>Is it me or does this list have some variation of this discussion
>every couple weeks? :-)
I guess that's about how often I post ;-)
>I think configure_requires is a great idea, as long as one also puts
>"use 5.010;" at the top of the Build.PL and Makefile.PL.
Perhaps the CPAN(PLUS) needs to be upgraded. Would you be extolling the
virtues of bundling all of the (requires aka 'runtime') dependencies in
a dist if these tools had not always provided the basic feature of
resolving those dependencies?
We always install the latest version of a dependency dist (jagged edges
and all -- except if it was not indexed[1]), so why include stale
versions of some odd number of build tools in the tarball? Why not
just bundle 3 (or 7) compiler and linker binaries while we're at it?
[1] via the convention that the name contains an '_' and/or the
string 'TRIAL' and/or based on the phase of the moon when it was
uploaded
--Eric
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