On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:13:46AM -0500, Tolkin, Steve wrote: > Dear David, > I visited your site and found the perl-dep program > you wrote to "Find dependencies in perl code", > e.g. see http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/perl-dep/ > > What is the status of this?
It mostly works for the code-bases I've thrown at it. It has some serious shortcomings though, not least that it is itself a horrible tangled mess. But then, any attempt to do even a little bit of parsing of Perl is doomed to that fate :-) Feel free to download it and play with it. I talked about it a bit with Skud (I think it was Skud) some time ago. She was going to have a go at turning it into a module. > I am curious why you did not explicitly mention this tool > in this thread on code maintenance. Mostly because I forgot about it, but also cos I don't pay a lot of attention to boston-pm. > I'd like to come down from the ivory tower (CMM etc.) > and talk about software engineering with perl. > > The biggest problem I have with maintaining Perl code > is a result of the fact that I am running on Windows. > ... > > Perl is terrible about making things easy yo install. That may be true on Windows. It is not something I have particularly suffered from on any Unix-a-like. I suppose this is to be expected, as Windows is just a teensy bit tool-deficient. Like not having a C compiler and not having all the libraries that one would expect to find on a 'nix box. FWIW, Mac users have similar problems for similar reasons. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups -- anon
