Re: circular requirements

On 2010.6.6 5:43 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Hmmm ... sorry that I was not more clear.
> 
> Here's what I did. (No need to ask why :-)
> 
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker was previously installed from the Fedora 12 rpm. I 
> removed it. There was no ExtUtils::Installed. Then I attempted to 
> install ExtUtils::MakeMaker using the cpan script. It failed as 
> ExtUtils::Installed.pm was not available. Installing 
> ExtUtils::Installed failed as ExtUtils::MakeMaker was not available.
> 
> Not something that everyone does :-), but I thought you'd want to know.

Thanks for the report.  We're aware that MakeMaker cause some issues with
automatic CPAN packagers.  Bootstrapping is a bit messy.

Packagers should *delete inc/ before packaging* and fill in the dependencies
on ExtUtils::Install, Manifest and Command.  ExtUtils::Install, Manifest and
Command should *not* be part of a MakeMaker package.

I've written up some basic instructions in an INSTALL file.
http://github.com/schwern/extutils-makemaker/raw/master/INSTALL


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