On Sat Sep 01 02:55:28 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:47:56 -0700, James Keenan (via RT)
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > In order to continue as a Parrot developer, do I really need to
> > perform yet another upgrade of Module::Build or Pod::Simple
> (distros
> > for which I have little use)? More to the point, is there
> anything
> > in Test::Simple v0.70 that we need for Parrot that couldn't have
> been
> > found in 0.54 or 0.62?
>
> > What is there to prevent us from configuring Bundle::Parrot as
> > specifying *minimum* versions of modules rather than the *latest*
> > versions thereof?
>
> Dependencies and bundles are orthogonal concepts. One usually
> specifies dependencies in the {Makefile,Build}.PL.
>
> * if you install a Bundle, do not complain, (just don't use it
> instead)
>
> * DO complain, if a distribution does not specify all of its
> dependencies
>
> Bundles contain goodies. Or they are used as a workaround when
> dependency declarations do not work for some reason.
>
I think Andreas summed this thread up nicely.
Closing ticket.
