On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> > What's the problem with having new dependencies on CPAN? Digest::MD5 seems
> > to be a core module. Remember that everybody talks about SDKs, so we will
> > end up with dependencies anyways. If we do PREREQ_PM, CPAN will
> > automatically install all the requirements, so will Bundle::Apache2.
>
> Digest::MD5 is not a core module in 5.6.1.
> we should not be creating dependencies on cpan modules when they are not
> needed.
what happens if we bundle a pure Perl md5 implementation? No CPAN
dependency.
See http://www.equi4.com/md5/ (about 7.5k source code)
> File::Compare is a core module, use that instead.
> having cpan dependencies for building mod_perl is a pita, no matter how
> hard CPAN.pm tries to make things easy, it is not.
File::Compare is quite useless. We need to compare a variable against the
file.
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