Gabor Szabo wrote:
Before releasing or installing a module it might be a good thing
to test all the other CPAN modules that depend on the one to be
released or installed.
Is there a tool to do this?
How would you do this?
Use the CPANTS database to find what depends on your module, then, in a
pristine perl environment (ie, one you just built in your home
directory) I'd first install the shiny new version of my module and all
*its* dependencies, and then:
.../perl -MCPAN -e 'test qw(All::The Modules::That::Depend On::Me)'
I've not looked at how you might automagically extract the list of
dependees (?) from CPANTS, but to do it by hand just look at:
http://cpants.perl.org/dist/Distribution-Name
to find the list, which is near the bottom on the right.
That list isn't entirely accurate - I know that for one of my modules it
lists something that merely mentions my module in its documentation -
but it's a good start.
--
David Cantrell
