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Re: CPAN packaging.

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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
July 20, 2001 16:43
Subject:
Re: CPAN packaging.
Message ID:
20010720194316.L4498@blackrider
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:06:53PM -0500, Marc W. Mengel wrote:
> In particular GD, and XML::Parser have
> started down this road, requiring libgd and expat, respectively,
> to be installed before they will build.  Now they may have
> done this for perfectly valid reasons, and I don't mean to pick on
> them, BUT...

Perhaps you should ask them why they stopped bundling it before going
further.  Clark and Lincoln are smart guys, they probably have good
reasons.

-- 

Michael G. Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl6 Quality Assurance     <perl-qa@perl.org>	     Kwalitee Is Job One
And Solaris must be destroyed.
	-- Peter Miller

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