Of course, the "recommends" keyword also doesn't mean what you think it means and is largely pointless.
Adam K 2009/1/25 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoe...@efn.org>: > On Sat, January 24, 2009 8:07 pm, Lyle wrote: >> Hi All, >> Looking more at makefiles, in your Makefile.PL or Build.PL you have >> the usual pre-requisites in PREREQ_PM. But what if your Perl module >> requires other modules Only if certain features are used. Is there a >> possible requisites you can define? So that when the module is built with >> cpan, it pauses asking if you want the extra modules installed and >> defaults to no if you don't respond is 30 seconds? > > META.yml and Module::Build support recommends as well as requires > ( http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-current.html#recommends , > http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Module::Build::Authoring#PREREQUISITES ) > > How that is responded to is up to the installer. > >
