use Perl

• C or Make? (Score:1)

  by chromatic (983)

  I heard that story about make, specifically the leading tabs.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by schwern (1528)

    I think you may be right.
• Conflicts of Interest (Score:2)

  by barbie (2653)

  Firstly, thanks for pointing out there is a discussion about something that is potentially of interest to the WHOLE of CPAN and not just a small subset. Wouldn't it be better to have a specialist list regarding META.yml specs, that discusses these sort of changes? A Module::Build list is not something I am going to sign up as I tear my hair out with MB at the best of times.

  When I first saw your post, I assumed this was part of the Module Authors list discussion a few weeks ago, but struggled to find the th
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    The main issue here is that META.yml is not authorative, with the exception of the configure_requires key.
    
    You need to run Makefile.PL in order to determine the configuration (and thus dependencies) for that host.
    
    Thus, META.yml is considered to be advisory only.
    
    New and useful keys in META.yml are those that are likely to be useful in an advisory context.
    
    Knowing the minimum Perl version meets this criteria, as useful things can be done by mapping dependencies at a graph level and working out which modules are
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by schwern (1528)

    However, I do think requires_perl is not appropriate, requires_executable using the same format as the requires would be more useful.
    
    I came to that conclusion, too, but from a desire not to have a whole salad of "requires_perl", "recommends_perl", "test_requires_perl", "configure_requires_perl", etc...
    
    The trouble is a general purpose executable/external utility specification is a whole lot more difficult. Previously, everything in the META.yml was about the module being shipped. Now we want to specify thi
• Bizzare (Score:1)

  by link (3402)

  I find it more bizzare that it starts of with
  
  "After a number of incidents, it would appear that putting the Perl version dependency into requires is
  just too problematic to be an appropriate solution."
  
  but doesn't mention any of these incidents.