On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:53:47PM +0000, Martyn J. Pearce wrote:
> 1) The PREREQ_PM facility informs the user of missing modules, but not where
> to find them.  Not every module (in the Perl sense) comes in a module (in the
> CPAN sense) of the same name.

Why should it?  PREREQ_PM specifies

  "Distribution depends on PM-files"

PAUSE indexer specifies

  "PM-file is contained in a distribution"

CPAN.pm uses both pieces of info to do what it should.  What I am missing?

> 2) There is no handling of required executables.

Is not a problem as far as the executable comes with a (dummy?)
module.

Ilya

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