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
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