Re: [Module-build-general] Bootstrapping

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 11:31  PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> I believe it was Mark Fowler who brought this issue up at the M::B BOF 
> at
> YAPC.
>
> His basic problem was that he had a subclass of M::B that he wanted to 
> use
> in various modules he might distribute on CPAN.  This leads to the
> question of how to specify this prerequisite.
>
> I think this needs a new prereq specification for "bootstrap" modules, 
> so
> we can do something like this:
>
>   use Module::Build;
>   Module::Build->boostrap_requires( 'Module::Build::Foo' => 0.15, ... 
> );
>
>   require Module::Build::Foo;
>
>   Module::Build::Foo->new( ... )->create_build_script;
>
> This wouldn't be too hard to implement but I wanted to discuss the API
> before creating a patch.
>
> So what do others think?

I'm probably open to the idea, but not for the 1.19 release.  I sort of 
also need to be convinced that it's worthwhile putting these things on 
CPAN, since I'd imagine they will mostly be special-purpose tools for 
specific build processes.

  -Ken