Re: [Module::Build] Making 0.28 a reality

[Chris D. <ch...@cl...>]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:57 PM, Stephen Adkins wrote:

> The two full implementations of YAML in perl are YAML (i.e. YAML.pm)
> and YAML::Syck.  Neither of them has significant other dependencies.
>
>    YAML - build_requires: Test::Base: 0.49
>                requires: perl 5.6.1
>
>    YAML::Syck - build requires a C compiler
>                requires: perl 5.003
>

You must be joking!  Perl 5.6.1 and a C compiler are VERY significant  
dependencies.  M::B is pure-perl back to 5.005 quite deliberately.   
Except for Test::More, every one of M::B's required modules has been  
bundled with Perl itself since 5.005.

   % corelist Cwd Data::Dumper ExtUtils::Install ExtUtils::Manifest  
ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap File::Basename File::Compare File::Copy  
File::Find File::Path File::Spec Getopt::Long IO::File Test::Harness  
Text::ParseWords Test::More
   Cwd  was first released with perl 5
   Data::Dumper  was first released with perl 5.005
   ExtUtils::Install  was first released with perl 5.002
   ExtUtils::Manifest  was first released with perl 5.001
   ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap  was first released with perl 5.001
   File::Basename  was first released with perl 5
   File::Compare  was first released with perl 5.004
   File::Copy  was first released with perl 5.002
   File::Find  was first released with perl 5
   File::Path  was first released with perl 5.001
   File::Spec  was first released with perl 5.005
   Getopt::Long  was first released with perl 5
   IO::File  was first released with perl 5.00307
   Test::Harness  was first released with perl 5
   Text::ParseWords  was first released with perl 5
   Test::More  was first released with perl 5.007003

> The only reason to have *another* external YAML distribution is to
> have one which
> has even fewer dependencies (i.e. perl 5.005_03 aka 5.5.3, no C  
> compiler).

Yes, that's it exactly.

Chris
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