I’d like to discuss that ... because in my experience autobundle installation on a pristine machine doesn’t work as ... well ... as it properly should.

The problem seems to be that autobundle knows absolutely nothing at all about prerequisites.   It does not order the list of installs into a sequence that would cause the subsequent installation to proceed as smoothly as, at least, I think it should.   In a previous thread on this forum (which I have not looked up) I was given a script that someone had cobbled-together to reprocess the autobundle list.   But I wonder, why hasn’t that become “official,” even as an option?

If you configure CPAN to follow dependencies, it does tend to work better, but even so, early installs may proceed in certain ways because optional prerequisites (e.g. YAML::Syck or even YAML itself) have not yet appeared on the (alphabetized?) list.   Of course we know that some dependencies are basically circular anyway.   But even so, to me, autobundle has earned a grade of “needs improvement” for a long time on this score.

What do you think?   Why isn’t it much easier, and what can be done to make it so?