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Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:43:57 -0800


James LewisMoss writes:
> >>>>> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:17:37 -0800, Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> sa
> id:
> 
>  Dave> Rob Browning writes:
>  >> linas@linas.org writes:
>  >>
>  >> > If you can do this in under an hour or tw, do it. We've alread
>  >> > blown more time on the mailing list discussing this for everyone
>  >> > who gets this problem.
>  >> >
>  >> > btw, this will still be a problem for version 1.5 if I
>  >> > understand correctly.
>  >>
>  >> Presuming everyone's happy with this solution, I'll try and make
>  >> sure my patch tomorrow has something like this in it.  We also
>  >> need to update our Finance::Quote version, but I'm wondering if,
>  >> since just providing this still may leave people without the
>  >> requisite sub-dependencies, we might just want to leave it out and
>  >> make sure the message tells them how to use CPAN to get this (and
>  >> automagically) all the needed sub-dependencies.  Thoughts?
> 
>  Dave> I'd rather keep it in, so the people who have working systems
>  Dave> now don't have to mess with CPAN in order to run 1.5.x.
> 
> Don't they have to anyway to get the F:Q dependencies?

Some do. But I believe some distributions already come with
the perl modules. And people with 1.4.x who want to try 1.5.x
will have them already.

dave