Re: DWIM inc bundling design discussion (LONG)
Ron Savage <[email protected]>
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Hi David On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 07:52 -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Ron Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > > My concern is authors choosing to include a dev version of module, which > > is in conflict with my policy of - as far as humanly possible - of never > > installing a dev version. Simple! > > > > Now what happens when they do that, and the install succeeds, but when I > > use their module with my non-dev - and presumably older - version, their > > module does not work. E.g. is has an incompatible API. > > > > Or is this impossible, because I misunderstood what's going on? > > You've misunderstood. That's good to know... > The bundled modules are *only* the 'configure_requires' modules. > Generally, that means Module::Build and anything custom necessary to > get Build.PL to run. Bundled modules are not installed. > > In some cases, I could see a dev version of M::B being bundled. E.g. > someone really desperately wants File::ShareDir support, but we > haven't released 0.36 yet. They could bundle 0.35_XX and have > ShareDir support for installation. I think restricting that (a) is > hard and (b) defeats a potentially important use case. -- Ron Savage [email protected] http://savage.net.au/index.html