Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 07:43:38AM -0500, David Golden wrote: That said, i agree in the meantime that providing a traditional Makefile.PL along with a Build.PL is usually a wise approach, as Chris suggested. But to my knowledge, I can't do that, because I have some 'build_requires' lines. I

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Paul LeoNerd Evans
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:19:09PM -0400, David Golden wrote: I think if you use M::B and have it create a traditional Makefile.PL, it will just promote all those build_requires to full prereqs. So people that have M::B will get the build_requires behavior and those with only EU::MM will get

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread David Golden
On 3/13/07, Paul LeoNerd Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but doesn't that produce end results that depend on too much..? Locally I build these CPAN dists into real debian packages with dh-make-perl, which knows how to translate build and runtime dependencies into their debian equivalents. If

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Smylers
Paul LeoNerd Evans writes: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:19:09PM -0400, David Golden wrote: I think if you use M::B and have it create a traditional Makefile.PL, it will just promote all those build_requires to full prereqs. So people that have M::B will get the build_requires behavior and

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Jonathan Rockway
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:23, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 07:43:38AM -0500, David Golden wrote: That said, i agree in the meantime that providing a traditional Makefile.PL along with a Build.PL is usually a wise approach, as Chris suggested. But to my knowledge, I

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 13, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: Why don't y'all just use Module::Install? It handles build_requires, AND you can bundle modules with your dist, in case dependencies worry you. Problems solved. Regards, Jonathan Rockway Because M::I still uses make, thereby failing

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Jonathan Rockway wrote: Why don't y'all just use Module::Install? It handles build_requires, AND you can bundle modules with your dist, in case dependencies worry you. Problems solved. OTOH, Module::Install (and Module::Build as well to be honest) doesn't work on old Perl. Some

Re: CPAN testers machines that lack Module::Build

2007-03-13 Thread Ken Williams
On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:38 PM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: Jonathan Rockway wrote: Why don't y'all just use Module::Install? It handles build_requires, AND you can bundle modules with your dist, in case dependencies worry you. Problems solved. OTOH, Module::Install (and