Development of Perl's Module::Build ()

Adam Kennedy | 5 Feb 2012 03:51

Re: Ending Build.PL if there are missing modules

I was thinking about dropping anything without a specific numberic
version completely and requiring manual, because I figure the chances
for misidentification is too high (whereas a number will only really
be there after a human has put some specific thought into it).

Adam

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM, David Golden <xdaveg <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Adam Kennedy <adam <at> ali.as> wrote:
>> If the goal is only to pick up versioned dependencies, I'm surprised
>> we even need to bother with that.
>
> It picks up as many "standard" dependencies as it can, but treats
> anything without a version as requesting version 0.
>
> -- David

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David Golden | 5 Feb 2012 04:05

Re: Ending Build.PL if there are missing modules

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Adam Kennedy <adam <at> ali.as> wrote:
> I was thinking about dropping anything without a specific numberic
> version completely and requiring manual, because I figure the chances
> for misidentification is too high (whereas a number will only really
> be there after a human has put some specific thought into it).

You're sort of talking about the equivalent of "use strict" for module
importing.  (Though note that it can't be done via C<use parent
'Foo'>.)

I think that's a sensible strategy, though I think you'll annoy people
who really want it to DWIM rather than have to be explicit about it.

-- David