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