Re: CPAN modules

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Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>> Philip, we have Bundle::Apache2 which is exactly for that purpose. 
>> Feel free to send a patch to add the missing modules.
> 
> Yes, I added IPC::Run3 and uped the CGI version :) things to in a patch.

Yup, thank you :)

>> Though as it can be seen from your list, most modules are either not 
>> needed by normal users (used only by developers, i.e. Tie::IxHash) or 
>> they are not required by mod_perl test suite, but they are 
>> dependencies of other modules, and therefore should't be on that list.
> 
> Yes, the plus of this is that CPAN won't ask me if I want to follow the 
> dpendencies if I install them in this order even for 5.6.2.  I wasn't 
> suggesting to put these all in the Apache2::Bundle file.

Right. But those dependencies lists always change, so it's better to tell 
CPAN.pm to follow deps (which in my setup is automatic).

>> I've just tested, the only modules required are:
>> BSD::Resources
>> CGI
>> Chatbot::Eliza
>> Compress::Zlib
>> HTML::HeadParser
>> LWP
>>
>> all in the bundle file already, but HTML::HeadParser, which I'll add 
>> shortly
> 
> Did you check that will perl 5.8.6 or perl 5.6.2 as the list is slightly 
> different since less is in CORE in 5.6.x; I forget what though.

I have checked that w/o perl, all requirements are in the plan() call.


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