[rt.cpan.org #118787] Circular dependency between Module::Install and Module::ScanDeps

"Karen Etheridge via RT" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.par
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tue Nov 15 22:05:09 2016: Request 118787 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by ETHER
       Queue: Module-ScanDeps
     Subject: Circular dependency between Module::Install and Module::ScanDeps
   Broken in: (no value)
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       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118787 >


On 2016-11-15 18:14:33, JKEENAN wrote:
> A circular dependency exists between Module-Install and Module-
> ScanDeps.

No, the problem here is that Module-ScanDeps uses inc::Module::Install,
which breaks with upcoming perls.

> I therefore have a strong incentive to get Module::Install into a
> minimally functional state.  A first step in that direction would be
> to break the circular dependency.  My hunch is that it would be fairly
> straightforward to write a traditional, ExtUtils::MakeMaker-based
> Makefile.PL for Module::ScanDeps.

It is my opinion that every distribution that uses MI should switch off of it,
but that is not a new opinion -- it is merely bolstered by the new issues.

I'm leaving this issue open as it's not my distribution, and the remedy is the
same as proposed for the originally-conceived issue.
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