OT: non-perl dependencies (was: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!)

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:06:48PM +0200, jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>                                All you have to do is call `apt-get  
> update` and you have the new packages with dependency handling built  
> in! (Even better than CPAN's because CPAN's can only handle perl  
> dependecies ...

I'm working on that!

I'm already testing it on OS X, but if anyone has access to some other
proprietary Unix, eg Solaris or Irix, and has perl built with the
proprietary compilers, can you please test Devel::CheckLib for me?

Results from VMS would be good too, although providing them will be
deemed to be a sign that you're also volunteering to contribute the code
to make it work :-)

That will be a partial solution, in that it will at least let people
check whether a non-perl dependency is installed.  I'm going to also
have a go at packaging pkg-config as a module.  Once that's done, that
will hopefully provide a template others can use to bundle other
executables and libraries in a CPAN-friendly manner.

Why choose pkg-config? Cos there's a module that depends on it.

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