Thu Jul 30 05:02:28 2015: Request 106144 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by SLAFFAN
Queue: Module-ScanDeps
Subject: [Patch] Preload dependencies for File::BOM
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: slaf...@cpan.org
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106144 >
On Thu Jul 30 03:31:22 2015, RSCHUPP wrote:
> On 2015-07-29 19:42:33, SLAFFAN wrote:
> > Actually, if you agree that the Encode::* modules do need to be
> > preloaded then it should be under Encode or Encode::Config, not
> > File::BOM.
>
> Well, adding
>
> 'Encode.pm' => 'sub',
>
> to %Preload will pack ALL of them for a whopping 21 MB of stuff for
> anyone
> who just wants to
>
> use Encode qw(encode decode);
> ...
> $string = decode("utf8", $bytes);
>
> So I'm hesitant to do that. If someone knows in advance which
> encodings they need
> they can add an appropriate -M option to their pp command. If they
> want to be
> flexible (e.g. program takes the encoding as input), this could get
> cumbersome, though.
>
> There was once a suggestion on the list to add an option to pp that
> would mean
> "include Foo.pm and everything below Foo/". Implementation would be
> almost trivial
> (just call _glob_in_inc("Foo.pm")), the problem is to come up with a
> good name
> for this option.
>
> Cheers, Roderich
>
>
That's a fair point about the size surprise. 21MB isn't that big these days,
but it would be excessive for a simple application.
The "everything below Foo" option could possibly be added to pp by adding
wildcard or regexp handling to the -M argument, similar to --add in perlapp.
http://docs.activestate.com/pdk/9.4/PerlApp.html#perlapp_top
Coming back to File::BOM, do you want a revised patch for it?
Regards,
Shawn.
