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Re: The case for SDKs
From:
Matt Sergeant
Date:
August 3, 2001 13:04
Subject:
Re: The case for SDKs
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.30.0108032100100.18744-100000@ted.sergeant.org
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Matt Sergeant [matt@sergeant.org] quoth:
> *>On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Peter Scott wrote:
> *>
> *>> To satisfy this rationale we merely need to build SDKs that contain the
> *>> 'popular' modules that these providers' customers want. We don't have to
> *>> make all the modules sing in tune.
> *>
> *>I guess I have a higher personal bar than that. *shrug*
>
> This is precisely what we endured for 2 years on the SDK list...
>
> Do I see Bundle::MSERGEANT coming to a CPAN near us? :)
Maybe... :-)
> As for the Bundle::XML, you can order them in such a way that the
> installation goes a little more smoothly as well as making plain the expat
> requirement in the readme. I'm not sure if you could add something in it
> to check for the needed libraries and gripe if it doesn't see them :)
This is something we should re-visit. I've now perfected (I think) the
have_library stuff I posted to this list a while back, which will check
for external libraries in various places, and just generally do the right
thing. It might be time to look at adding it to ExtUtils somewhere.
> Bundles aren't perfect, but they work and they are easy to use.
True enough. I'll investigate further. You may see Bundle::MattXML yet :-)
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