On Friday 14 February 2003 10:45, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:54:47AM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > The use of a third-party module raises a new problem: there is any way > > to automate the installation of pre-requisite libraries on a system? I > > wanna end up with a script that the operator just runs before publishing > > the new scripts on the production system, and that is able to install all > > libraries. I have a connection to the internet and think on something > > like > > #!/usr/bin/perl -wT > > use strict; > > use CPAN; > > install qw/ Some::Module And::Another::One Time::Parse DateTime > > /; __END__ > > You could use Abigail's The::Net module: > http://perlmonks.thepen.com/92473.html > > use The::Net; > use Some::Module; > use And::Another::One;
ummm ... isnt this a solution to an already solved problem? surely just adding it to the PREREQ_PM hash in the Makefile.PL of your third party app will war you of the failures anyway .... failing that just run a script to test for them and then fix them with CPAN. Have a look at how RT (request tracker .. umm http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) does it if you dont want to do the Makefile.PL thing .. they run a ./testdeps and a ./fixdeps scripts that err test and fix the dependenices ... -- Robin Szemeti
