I would think it be acceptable that if LWP is not found, try to fail over to some other mechanism (wget, etc.).
> -----Original Message----- > From: mtt-users-boun...@open-mpi.org > [mailto:mtt-users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Mallove > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:45 AM > To: General user list for the MPI Testing Tool > Subject: Re: [MTT users] adding LWP::UserAgent to MTT repository > > > > Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote On 07/17/06 10:13,: > > It might be ok to adapt the module to try to "include" it > (vs. requiring > > it) and if it's not there, fail over. > > > > Make sense? > > > Do you mean adapt Perfbase.pm fail over if it can't find > LWP::UserAgent? Or > adapt LWP::UserAgent to failover if it can't find > HTML::HeadParser (which I > think needs Parser.so). Or both? > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: mtt-users-boun...@open-mpi.org > >>[mailto:mtt-users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Mallove > >>Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:46 AM > >>To: mtt-us...@open-mpi.org > >>Subject: [MTT users] adding LWP::UserAgent to MTT repository > >> > >>I thought it would be nice to not require users to have > >>LWP::UserAgent installed > >> (like we don't require them to have Config::IniFiles - it's > >>part of the MTT > >>repository), since LWP::UserAgent isn't listed as a standard module > >>(https://www.linuxnotes.net/perlcd/prog/ch32_01.htm). > >>However, LWP::UserAgent > >>uses a platform dependent binary called Parser.so which makes > >>the addition of > >>LWP::UserAgent to the repos slightly more involved. E.g., > >>putting Parser.so in > >>sparc, i386, etc. directories and getting UserAgent to look > >>for them in the > >>right place. For now, LWP::UserAgent can be put in a > >>centralized location that > >>the PERLLIB env var can point to. > >> > >>-Ethan > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>mtt-users mailing list > >>mtt-us...@open-mpi.org > >>http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mtt-users > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mtt-users mailing list > > mtt-us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mtt-users > > _______________________________________________ > mtt-users mailing list > mtt-us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mtt-users >
