[Catalyst] [BUG] Loop dependency between Cat and Cat::Engine::Apache

Andy Grundman andy at hybridized.org
Thu Jan 12 19:32:56 CET 2006


Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
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> Sorry for the direct bug report, rt.cpan.org is down right now and
> tomorrow I'll have forgotten all about this :-)
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> Catalyst says it requires Catalyst::Engine::Apache as an optional
> dependency at perl Makefile.PL time, but the latter cannot pass it's
> test suite unless Catalyst::Engine (that is, Catalyst itself) is
> installed. This is otherwise harmless but it made my head spin for a
> millisecond while in the middle of my cpan2rpm fury (30 packages built
> so far and counting :-). I guess it could confuse other people as well.

Yeah I guess you're right, 01use.t will fail if Cat is not installed.  That 
sucks, so we'll just have to remove that test.  It's not a big deal though, the 
optional full test suite is much better anyway.

Thanks,
-Andy



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