On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:53:42PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-12 21:10]:
> > The metric will be called prereq_matches_use and shall check if
> > all the modules used in a dist are also listed as a prereq.
> > (prereq is either gatherd directly from Meta.YMLs 'requires',
> > by parsing Build.PL or Makefile.PL)
> > This results in: Of 12039 dists, 5419 have missing deps
> If a sizable fraction of these are in fact valid hits and not
> just false negatives due to the trickiness of the problem, then
> I would say the metric is direly needed!
I bet most of them are things like:
" I need Foo::Bar and Baz::Barf. Foo::Bar requires Baz::Barf so I don't
need to declare it. "
This is an error, because the next version of Foo::Bar might drop that
pre-requisite by, eg, implementing the functionality itself or changing
to use something else.
and:
" Foo::Bar is in distribution AUTHOR/Foo-Bar which also contains
Foo::Bar::Baz, so I only need to declare one of them to get both. "
This is also an error, as Foo::Bar::Baz might be moved into a seperate
distribution at some point in the future, or its functionality might be
folded into Foo::Bar.
I approve of this kwalitee metric and would like to subscribe to its
newsletter^W^W^W^Wbe told which of my modules are broken.
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