"Tom 'spot' Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? It might be. I can see putting MakeMaker and CPAN into perl-devel, but perlbug really seems to me to belong in the main perl package. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
