[Catalyst] [RFC] Catalyst::ConfigLoader -- load a config from various formats

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:43:16AM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
> >If you can think of a better way that allows all apps on the system to get
> >the main version except those that specifically
> >
> >use YAML::Frozen::039;
> 
> You're trying to allow for multiple versions of the same module on the 
> same system?  Why?  Isn't it enough for people to be able to install the 
> right one?

NO! Other apps might depend on the latest YAML. I'm not willing to break
them just to fix mine. We're talking about production quality deployments
here - just fixing a version is fine for a dev box but useless otherwise.

> The main thing that doesn't support installing a specific version 
> (AFAIK) is the CPAN shell.  That could be changed.  And bundles could be 
> changed to allow specific versions to be required.

CPAN shell can install a specific dist just fine. That's not the point.

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