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RE: The case for SDKs
From:
Matt Sergeant
Date:
August 3, 2001 06:29
Subject:
RE: The case for SDKs
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.30.0108031428270.18744-100000@ted.sergeant.org
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Horsley Tom wrote:
> > Is there anything to prevent us from putting together a few sample
> > SDKs as Bundles? Is there anything missing from the Bundle model that
> > we want in an SDK?
>
> I suspect the main thing most people would expect in an SDK is that
> it actually build and install correctly on their machine, or be clearly
> marked as being a Win32-centric or Solaris-centric, etc SDK that is intended
> just for one platform. With random modules not necessarily getting
> as much testing as core perl, this might be hard to achieve over
> a bazillion different platforms.
Right. And also external dependencies, like XML::Parser requires expat. We
need to deal with those things in a clean manner.
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