On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:42 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > Well, as Joe pointed out (when he wasn't name-calling), CPAN does depend > on ExtUtils::MakeMaker. > > So, we can do the following: > > * Move ExtUtils::MakeMaker to its own package. Move CPAN to its own > package. Have the CPAN package depend on ExtUtils::MakeMaker, have the > ExtUtils::MakeMaker package depend on perl-devel. > > In functionality, this brings us back to where we began, except that > now, default installs (just perl) will not get CPAN. > > * Move ExtUtils::MakeMaker and CPAN to perl-devel. Again, default > installs (just perl) won't get CPAN. > > * The third option is to move config.h back into perl, and document this > as an exception case. CPAN isn't the only thing: [spot@localhost perl-5.8.8]$ grep -r "require ExtUtils::MakeMaker" * lib/CPAN.pm: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; lib/CPAN.pm: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm:#require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; lib/ExtUtils/t/backwards.t:require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm:require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; utils/perlbug.PL: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; so, we'd need to handle ExtUtils::Embed and perlbug too. :/ perlbug is really the hardest one. I think we really want that to be in the base perl package. The "third option" above, is looking more and more like the cleanest fix to me. Thoughts? ~spot
