Does not understand alternative META6 dependency format (i.e. Inline::Perl5)

[ugexe]

Inline::Perl5 (and others like Inline::Python) use a hash for the e.g. depends instead of an array: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5/blob/b6e4e5922c6ff1d734769ce55cc7be602f36ef18/META6.json#L9-L25

See https://design.raku.org/S22.html#depends but note support for this even in zef is flimsy ( see https://github.com/ugexe/zef/blob/e77560688e6a5508b476bd9dba013523aa695b15/lib/Zef/Distribution.pm6#L71-L77 ). Personally I would suggest others to just use the array format ( an array of hash is OK -- see https://deathbyperl6.com/perl-toolchain-summit-2018-meta6-dependency-hello/ ) but for now this is the reality.

[zopsicle]

Should be easy to fix. Something that also doesn’t work currently is :ver<...>, :auth<...>, :api<...> etc, they just get discarded. 😛

[ugexe]

I suspect "depends" : [ { "name" : "Foo" } ] also does not work (this is not the same as the hash form mentioned earlier) although I have not verified.

Additionally curl:from<bin> would search PATH for curl (not search for a curl module) and curl:from<native> would look for a e.g. libcurl.so

[zopsicle]

Oh, so there is already syntax for specifying native dependencies! That’s neat, for #1. Although I would still need to keep a mapping from library names to Nix package names (e.g. ssl → openssl), but that is fine.

[ugexe]

Yes see "ADD BASIC :FROM AND :FROM SUPPORT" from https://deathbyperl6.com/perl-toolchain-summit-2018-meta6-dependency-hello/