Re: DWIM bundling dependencies

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would rather that we do it without a net connection, or at least
> ensure that it's the same combination of stuff that the author is
> using.  This is partly why I lean toward a .packlist-based scheme.  You
> can't really make it work at all without pure-perl modules, and there
> are a few other constraints to the whole scheme.  Thus, I think we
> should optimize for solving the Module::Build case (90% solution.)
>
> In other words, at some point you reach a problem where it can't be done
> or is maybe just somewhat difficult.  I suggest that whatever we try to
> do automagically should stop well short of that point.

Like I said, ScanDeps/TraceDeps should work most of the time.
Anything too complicated isn't going to bundle well, anyway.  My point
was that grabbing a META.yml is the only way to be sure -- and only
for non arch specific dependencies, but arch-specific bundling is a
nightmare anyway.

-- David