Re: DWIM bundling dependencies
Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]>
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# from David Golden
# on Friday 11 September 2009 20:05:
>Uh, huh. How about all that platform specific code that doesn't get
>loaded? E.g. Module::Build::Platform::VMS.
packlists.
>Having an 02packages file from a CPAN to map from a requested module
>to a distribution and then interrogating the distribution metadata is,
>in my opinion, the most robust way to do this.
I doubt that it will actually be robust. It might approach something
that would be more "correct". I think that's a distraction.
But I guess do whatever.
--Eric
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