Re: How to indicate a dependency in my module

[Terrence Brannon]

Bruno Negrao wrote:

Hi all,

I´m finishing to write a module, Proc::Daemontools, and it requires that the
daemontools package be installed on a machine for it to work.
Where must I indicate that this module have a dependency?


I already wrote
this on the README file. Is there any other place?
 

I never read READMEs. I read the docs of the module that I see at 
search.cpan.org

In my test script, I cause the test to fail if it cannot find a process,
'svscan', running on the machine. Do you think that this can cause all the
cpan-testers to fail?
 

You might look at Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple, which simply skips 
some tests if it lacks support modules/processes. That way , you don't 
fail even though you never ran the tests.

Thanks,
bnegrao.