Mon Oct 24 18:00:01 2011: Request 71901 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: Module-ScanDeps
Subject: scandeps -R finds too much
Broken in: 1.04
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: sre...@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71901 >
On 2011-10-24 13:06:59, SREZIC wrote:
> ...
> I get a large list of dependencies:
>
> 'Template' => '2.22',
> 'Template::Alloy' => '1.016',
> 'Template::Alloy::Compile' => 'undef',
> (snipped 120 lines)
> 'Template::VMethods' => '2.16',
> 'Template::View' => '2.91',
That's on purpose. Template.pm loads lots of Template/*.pm
and Template/Plugin/*.pm modules at runtime that can't be
detected by static analysis. So Module::ScanDeps punts and
depends on every installed module "below" Template - just
to err on the safe side [1]. Template::Alloy is just collateral
damage (and really should not have used this name in the
Template:: namespace in the first place, but that's the
anarchy of CPAN).
Cheers, Roderich
[1] The primary customers of Module::ScanDeps are PAR and PAR::Packer
where the main concern is that we pack in anything that could
potentially be loaded by the given script.
