On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:44:41AM +, Martyn J. Pearce wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
1) The PREREQ_PM facility informs the user of missing modules, but not
where to find them. Not every module (in the Perl sense) comes in a
module (in the CPAN sense) of the same name.
^
See below
a) ... not all modules exist on CPAN. (some are specific to a company, some
on sourceforge or similar).
So you are retracting the same name part, right?
b) That some package names may exist in multiple modules.
This is so broken that I see little sense to discuss this situation...
c) That whilst Perl supports CPAN, it's not mandatory (nor should it be). We
should, however, support those who won't/can't use it.
What for??? Do you also want to support people who won't/can't use
modules with 'e' in the module name?
2) There is no handling of required executables.
Is not a problem as far as the executable comes with a (dummy?)
module.
Not all modules are written in perl. I have a module that uses the par
command, for example.
So code Makefile.PL to warn user if par is not available (with install
instructions if needed). See for example Math::Pari, which will
auto-download GP/PARI if not found on the system.
Why should MakeMaker do the work which is easier to do in the module?
Ilya
