Moin, On Wednesday 05 April 2006 06:43, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > > * "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-04T10:40:39] > > [sniplots] > But there's very little point in using Exporter::Lite because 100 other > modules use Exporter in any given program. > > So even though Exporter::Lite is lite'r than Exporter, the use of > Exporter is zero, while Exporter::Lite means loading another module, > and adds another dependency. > > And because dependencies are recursive, you inherit it's baggage. > > If one dep doesn't work on VMS, now your program doesn't. > > And the more dependencies, especially if you are using more than one > module that does the same thing just because of stylistic differences, > then it means more problems. > > It's not till you hit something like Ricardo's exporter, which does > some very novel and interesting extra things, that you reach the > threshold. > > It's mostly the same, but if you need the extra parts, then it might be > worth the extra dependency.
Which is why Graph::Easy will include about 50 lines reinventing Heap::Binary - it removes the last dependency, uses less memory, is faster, and it avoids with me dealing with the only other option, Heap::Simple, because Heap::Simple comes in two flavours, Perl and XS and _you_ have to choose which to make the dependency, meaning the user doesn't get a choise other than "needs suddenly a compiler, but is faster" or "needs still no compiler, but is not much faster than Heap::Binary". Anyway, I think that we all agree in principle, but everyone has different thresholds. best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Wed Apr 5 18:31:08 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "My wife is just a slow brain, running up the bill.." -- Often misheard song lyrics #149
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