On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:00:12AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Let's say I'm putting together an SDK for silly modules (which I am)
> and I throw Symbol::Approx::Sub in. It has a dependency on
> Devel::Symdump. Well, Devel::Symdump is totally unrelated to the rest
> of the SDK, but we must resolve the dependency so it has to go in.
>
> Now the question is, what if they already have Devel::Symdump
> installed and *it's a newer version*? I'm been trying to think of an
> easy way that the SDK will only install a certain piece of itself if
> there's not already an equal or never version installed. And do it
> with a minimum of work to the SDK maintainer.
>
> Ideas?
Sounds like something MakeMaker should take care of.
Tim.