Adam Kennedy wrote: > Of course, the "recommends" keyword also doesn't mean what you think > it means and is largely pointless.
Near as I can figure what Adam's complaining about, since apparently we're mind readers now and so is he, is that, AFAIK, no CPAN client currently does anything with recommends. This is a SMOP to fix, and I note that Adam is a programmer. That or Adam's on another "never ask the user anything" tear. The intent of requires vs recommends is to implement something like the Debian Binary Dependency structure where "requires" == "Depends". Debian's "Recommends" suggests a stronger dependency than we do, since we lack "Suggests", and our "recommends" simply means "optional dependency". http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps You can use "recommends" along with "auto_features" to have Module::Build auto-detect what optional dependencies are available to your module. See Module::Build::API. -- 52. Not allowed to yell "Take that Cobra" at the rifle range. -- The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army http://skippyslist.com/list/
