I recently broke Catalyst::Devel when I uploaded a dodgy version of
Devel::CheckOS. Personally I don't like Catalyst and consider this to
have been a service to humanity, but I understand that some people
differ on this :-)
Thing is, my code doesn't show up as a dependency in CPANdeps. Turns out
that it's because it's a dependency of MooseX::Daemonize, which is in
turn an *optional* dependency of Cataylst::Devel. MooseX::Daemonize
doesn't show up in the META.{yml,json} files, and so CPANdeps doesn't
spot it. Instead it's in Makefile.PL thus:
if (!$Module::Install::AUTHOR && $^O ne 'MSWin32') {
requires 'MooseX::Daemonize'; # Optional in scripts
requires 'Starman'; # Optional in scripts
}
Seeing that we've gone down the route of having eleventy different
*_requires for build-time requirements, test requirements, and so on, I
think it makes sense to also put optional dependencies like this in
META.*. Any comments?
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keeps Bruce Schneier out.
