On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:55:37AM -0600, Ken Williams wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:30:01AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >>On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:51:39PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes > >>wrote: > >>>I was a little surprised to see t/xs reporting "No compiler found to > >>>test XS builds", till I saw that it is checking for > >>>Extutils::CBuilder. > >>>Could that be added to build_recommends (or whatever the appropriate > >>>tag is) in META.yml? > >> > >>There is no equivalent in MakeMaker. > > > >And you can't hand-alter the META.yml? > > Putting it in the META.yml doesn't really do anything - that's a > client-readable file full of meta-information that can be helpful to > clients (e.g. CPAN.pm, or search.cpan.org, or a person browsing through > an untarred module). It's not actually used during the build process, > it's just generated during the 'dist' action.
I'm a client too. I don't use CPAN or CPANPLUS usually to build things, I manually check for dependencies. I dislike it when a module that has dependencies (even just for tests) doesn't mention them in Makefile, META.yml, or a README or INSTALL.
