>>>>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:43:20 -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
> Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Aside from the suggestion from Thomas Klausner, you could subclass >> > CPAN::Mini to do just that. Add Module::Dependency and you should get >> > the system up and running rather quickly. I fact, it would probably be a >> > really good idea to make the result availlable on CPAN as >> > CPAN::Mini::Something. (Ask the modules list for a good namespace choice >> > or #perl or Ricardo Signes, the author of CPAN::Mini.) > I should mention also that what I'm ultimately after is something > like "cpans_ok" and "depends_ok" for unit tests. For the "depends_ok" > action, I'd want to test that when the dependancies are present, you get a > makefile (or buildfile), and when the dependancies are _not_ present, CPAN > picks up on that (which I'm guessing would involve overloading > CPAN::follow_prereqs). > Of course, if you're to the point of unit testing a module, you're > either developing it, or your own CPAN has probably already followed_prereqs > for you... so there's got to be a way to "fake" the prereqs not being there > as well. *Ideally* (since Makefile.PL/Build.PL behaviour may differ if a > module is or isn't there), I'd like to fool perl into thinking that those > files aren't in @INC when they actually are. The best I've come up with for > solving that, is to create another directory tree with empty files with the > same names as the modules (tmp/Foo/Bar.pm, etc) and popping that onto > @INC... is there a better way to do this that doesn't involve creating a > bunch of stub files? I'm not sure I can follow you, but did you consider @INC = (); ? -- andreas
