Re: Balancing test success with module install usability

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:15:47PM -0500, David Golden wrote:

> Without delving closer into the specifics, you have two issues that
> need to be separated:
> (a) needing DBI to be installed to work at all
> (b) needing to get information out of DBI for use in the make process
> How do other DBD modules handle it?  Or do they all just live with failures?

I suggest replacing these lines in Makefile.PL:

  use DBI 1.21;
  use DBI::DBD;

with:

  eval 'use DBI 1.21;use DBI::DBD' || eval q{
      use CPAN;
      CPAN::Shell->install("DBI");
  };
  eval 'use DBI 1.21;use DBI::DBD' || do {
      warn("Couldn't install DBI for some reason\n");
      exit 0;
  };

Yes, it's ugly as hell :-)

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