On Nov 24 2003 Stas Bekman wrote:
Our test suite gets quite a few important tests that require certain modules or certain version numbers to be installed. Without which users get those tests skipped, which may miss problems. Even though we have Bundle::Apache2, users need to take a special action to install those and since the bundle will contain modules relying on mp2 itself, it's not practical to install the Bundle before mp2 is installed. So ideally we want CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS to detect the optional prerequisites and fetch them automatically. Therefore think to add to modperl-2.0/Makefile.PL an optional PREREQ_PM which will be passed to WriteMakefile only if MP_INSTALL_OPTIONAL_MODULES=1 is passed.
If we ever prompt users for anything we could prompt them as well for that option as well. If you think this name is too long, please suggest a different name.
Hmm, may be the name is misleading after all, since it's only when Makefile.PL is run under CPAN.pm/CPANPLUS it'll automatically install these optional modules. Otherwise it'll just warn about unsatisfied dependencies and continues. MP_REQUIRE_OPTIONAL_MODULES=1?
To start with we will want to populate PREREQ_PM with LWP/whatever, CGI/3.01, Compress::Zlib/1.09 and may be a few more.
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