Re: Depending on external tools (2)

2008-02-27 Thread Ovid
--- Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an app that works with PostgreSQL. It depends on DPD::Pg. So far, so good. However, the requirement that DBD::Pg is installed is by no means a guarantee that there is a database server around. And if there is, the user running the CPAN

Re: Depending on external tools (2)

2008-02-27 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Johan Vromans # on Wednesday 27 February 2008 05:29: What would be a good means to arm the test scripts against this? This is what I currently use:   $ntests = 37;   SKIP: {       eval { require DBD::Pg };       skip(DBI PostgreSQL driver (DBD::Pg) not installed, $ntests) if $@;      

Depending on external tools

2008-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Hi, I have some modules that depend on external tools, like ghostscript, mplayer, and mencoder. Alien seems to be developed to handle dependencies on external libraries. Could Alien be used for depending on external tools as well? Or is there a better alternative? -- Johan

Re: Depending on external tools

2008-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:36:39AM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: I have some modules that depend on external tools, like ghostscript, mplayer, and mencoder. Alien seems to be developed to handle dependencies on external libraries. Could Alien be used for depending on external tools as well

Re: Depending on external tools

2008-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Module::Install has a requires_external_bin keyword for this. Interesting... -- Johan

Re: Depending on external tools

2008-02-01 Thread David Coppit
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:36:39AM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: I have some modules that depend on external tools, like ghostscript, mplayer, and mencoder. Alien seems to be developed to handle dependencies on external libraries. Could Alien be used for depending on external tools as well