On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 03:15:11AM -0500, Andreas Koenig via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> Wed Jan 30 03:15:08 2013: Request 83042 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by ANDK
> Queue: CPANPLUS
> Subject: Circular dependency
> Broken in: 0.9134
> Severity: Normal
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: ANDK@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83042 >
>
>
> When I look into the Makefile generated by 'perl Makefile.PL' of
> CPANPLUS-0.9134, then I find there:
>
> PREREQ_PM [...] CPANPLUS::Dist::Build=>q[0.60]
>
> And when I look into the Makefile of CPANPLUS-Dist-Build-0.70, then I find
>
> PREREQ_PM [...] CPANPLUS=>q[0.84]
>
> But do you not think that there are situations where this really is a
> circular dependency and should be avoided?
>
> I need to investigate why the cpan shell has difficulties to resolve the
> circular dependency when one of the dependencies is already fulfilled,
> will do so ASAP, but for now I'm curious what you think about it.
>
Hi,
Yeah, CPANPLUS::Dist::Build only gets added as a prereq if it is already
installed. But it was getting blindly added.
https://github.com/jib/cpanplus-devel/commit/0ba41761a
Should at least limit that.
I don't think I will be able to get around to looking at this properly
until v5.18.0 is out.
Cheers,
--
Chris Williams
aka BinGOs
PGP ID 0x4658671F
http://www.gumbynet.org.uk
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