Re: declaring meta info in a .pm (but really: bundling)

Nicholas Clark <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.module-build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:24:23AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from Nicholas Clark
> # on Monday 07 September 2009 11:11:
> 
> >I believe (but I may be wrong) that the plan with bundling was to use
> > the newer of the bundled and any installed version, to avoid the
> > problem that has happened with M::I whereby a bug fix in M::I means
> > that module authors need to update and re-release each and every
> > distribution bundling the buggy version.
> 
> That is/was the plan and all of that code is already done.
> 
> You can ship a bundled M::B (and anything else even) *11 months ago* 
> without any more code being written.  See contrib/bundle.pl for some 
> help.

I missed that. You may have noticed this :-)

Nicholas Clark
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