Re: [Module::Build] Re: [Yaml-core] yaml_dump on version objects

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

On Feb 17, 2006, at 8:55 AM, David Golden wrote:

> Chris Dolan wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2006, at 3:51 AM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:03:18PM -0800, Ingy dot Net wrote:
>>>> Ken,
>>>>
>>>> You definitely want to use 0.58+ for your prereqs.
>>>>
>>>> For a couple of 0.5x releases there were Spiffy deps etc, but  
>>>> that's all been
>>>> resolved. Now YAML.pm requires no extra deps.
>>>
>>> You realize that you still have build_requires Test::Base 0.49
>>> and Test-Base requires Spiffy?
>> I had the same question, but I then noticed that those are both  
>> included in the inc/ dir.
>
> But it's still listed in the META.yml file as a build_requires.  I  
> think that will cause CPAN/CPANPLUS to try to install/upgrade it,  
> regardless of its presence in inc/.
>
> David Golden

That is correct, but the point is (I believe) that if you don't use  
CPAN/CP+ then the install will succeed anyway.  Just as an  
experiment, I tried a CPAN install and said NO to Test::Base.  The  
install succeeded.

cpan> install YAML
...
Running install for module YAML
Running make for I/IN/INGY/YAML-0.58.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
   ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/ 
YAML-0.58.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
   ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/ 
YAML-0.58.tar.gz ok
...
   CPAN.pm: Going to build I/IN/INGY/YAML-0.58.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for YAML
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during [I/IN/INGY/ 
YAML-0.58.tar.gz] -----
     Test::Base
Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
of modules we are processing right now? [yes] n
...
All tests successful, 17 subtests skipped.
Files=32, Tests=415, 47 wallclock secs (39.81 cusr +  2.69 csys =  
42.50 CPU)
   /usr/bin/make test -- OK
...


Chris
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