Re: CONFIGURE_REQUIRES in MakeMaker

[email protected] (Alexandr Ciornii) Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:18:10 +0300
Newsgroups perl.makemaker
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

It should be only syntax sugar - it would be good to check that
modules are present and print some message in case they are missing,
but it is too late to do this in WriteMakefile.

2009/4/10 Michael G Schwern <[email protected]>:
> Looking at merging the configure_requires branch:
> http://github.com/schwern/extutils-makemaker/tree/configure_requires
>
> Is this really anything more than syntax sugar for...
>
>    META_ADD        => {
>        configure_requires => { ... },
>    }
>
> Should it do anything more?
>
> I guess any sort of checks on the requirements is kind of moot, either
> Makefile.PL is going to work or its not.
>
> Thoughts?

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