[DBD-SQLite] DBD::SQLite and CPAN

[David Dooling]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:16:20PM -0600, Curtis Jewell wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:26 -0500, "David Dooling" <banjo at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > > > Two possible solutions I can think of:
> > > > 
> > > > 1) configure_requires. Doesn't help with old clients
> > > 
> > > No, but it's the easiest way to help new ones. It can't hurt.
> > 
> > This seems more applicable to DBD::SQLite than something that needs
> > DBD::SQLite.  Using that would require porting the entire DBD::SQLite
> > build system to Module::Install (it currently uses
> > ExtUtils::MakeMaker).
> 
> Yes, it does, and no, it wouldn't require switching to M::I, because the
> capability is already in there!
> 
> DBD::SQLite's Makefile.PL includes this:
> 
> 	OPTIONAL( '6.46',
> 		META_MERGE => {
> 			configure_requires => {
> 				'ExtUtils::MakeMaker' => '6.48',
> 				'File::Spec'          => '0.82', # This is not allowed to be computed
> 				'DBI'                 => $DBI_required,
> 			}, ...
> 
> so that if you have a client new enough to pick the configure_requires
> line out of the META.yml, the problem should not arise in the first
> place.

That would be great if DBD::SQLite could be made to do the right thing
here.

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David Dooling
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