Do you need for it to be bundled in ./inc? Or would it be adequate to assure that when a user types cpanm Data::Random (or his favorite variation on that command), he gets YAML::Tiny pulled in prior to Makefile.PL executing? Usually that's fine. And if that's the case, you can put the following directive into your Module::Build-based Makefile.PL: 

configure_requires    'YAML::Tiny'    =>    '0.0';

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That invokes ExtUtils::MakeMaker's configure_requires directive for its write_makefile function. When you make dist, the appropriate metadata will be written into META.yml so that the user's CPAN installer will pull in the configuration dependency prior to executing Makefile.PL on his own system.

If you really do need to bundle some dependency along with your distribution, have a look at the docs for the Module::Install extension/plugin: Module::Install::Bundle. I haven't used it, but it claims to be able to bundle another module into your distribution. That seems more useful for distributions that have dependencies that might not be readily available (or available in a specific version) on CPAN.


Dave

In reply to Re: Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/ by davido
in thread Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/ by Oberon

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