Amias Channer wrote: > 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 . >
I guess you could also parse the cpan module output into HTML and use that mechanism through CGI... Not sure how easy this would be to setup though. Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
