Re: The mechanics of an SDK

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:46:44AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> This may be impractical for some reason, but...

It's impractical because someone will have to write it.  And after two
years of this group doing no Real Work, I don't think it's wise for
you to hold your breath waiting for it.


> Since I'm even lazier than that, I'd like to see a utility that takes a
> bundle file and turns it into an 'instantiated module' just like you've
> done above.
> 
> That would reduce the task to just
> 
> 	write Bundle::Foo::Bar file
> 	run utility
> 
> It's hardly going to be complicated

Ahhh, you're writing it, then?  Sign here, please.  Press hard, you're
making three copies.


> even including the fetching and unpacking of the modules via
> CPAN.pm.

Funny, that's a lot harder than it looks.  Kane and I have been
tearing bits out of CPAN.pm into independent modules.  We're far
enough along that we can give you something that, given a module, does
the fetching and unpacking.


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