On Monday 17 November 2008 11:07:52 Andrew Dougherty wrote: > Note, by the way, that perl-5.8.8 only shipped with Storable 2.15.
Perl 5.8.8 doesn't ship with File::Which either, and we require that too. (We do bundle that in our repository, which is something we shouldn't do and something I thought we didn't do anymore). Here are my assumptions: * anyone building Parrot now can install dependencies (working C compilation environment, potentially a bignum library, some CPAN modules, potentially flex/bison or equivalents) * it's simpler to require a single version of a dependency that we know will work reliably across platforms and other dependency versions than to create and maintain a matrix of platforms, dependencies, and versions to the effect that people who meet the previous assumption sometimes don't have to type 'cpan install Foo'. I realize that requiring people to install Storable 2.18 is somewhat of a headache, but it looks like the type of headache that's much smaller than the headaches of the alternatives. -- c
