Re: circular requirements

Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:50:15 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.extutils-makemaker.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 11:30:36AM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> 
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker needs ExtUtils::Installed which needs 
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker, so a clean install in not possible.

How come?

ExtUtils::MakeMaker doesn't list a dependency on ExtUtils::Installed, bundles
its own of ExtUtils::Installed, and your perl installation will already have
a copy of ExtUtils::Installed installed.

How does this fail to work in practice?

Nicholas Clark