On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 02:49 +0000, Lyle wrote: > Hi All, > Looking more at makefiles, in your Makefile.PL or Build.PL you have > the usual pre-requisites in PREREQ_PM. But what if your Perl module > requires other modules Only if certain features are used. > Is there a possible requisites you can define? So that when the module > is built with cpan, it pauses asking if you want the extra modules > installed and defaults to no if you don't respond is 30 seconds?
Pretty sure i've seen people do both , i'd say that you should use you judgement , if the possible requisites are hard to install or unmaintained modules then no but if they are pure perl and show signs of active development then yes. test reports are good for helping you make this decision. hmmmmmm....... Would it really be all that evil to have the cpan module plugged into the module loading system ? my thinking being that it would be very cool if just running a perl script in an interactive shell would prompt you to fetch and install the modules it uses. These could be stored in a temp location or for the truely brave , systemwide . This could also be quite a nice mechanism for building PAR's Toodle-pip Amias _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
