* Bill Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-30T23:07:22] > I wasn't talking specifically about anything... the recent discussion about > the above led me to post, but I was talking in general about the tendency of > module authors to be, in my opinion, overly eager to have dependencies on > other modules.
Authors are eager to (a) write less code to solve the problem at hand (b) use code that's already tested and I don't think anybody actually rushes out to add dependencies. They rush out to solve problems reliably, and they do that through code re-use. Heck, that's why you're going to the CPAN, too, isn't it? I have never added a dependency to my code when the person paying me for it asked me not to. I bet more CPAN authors are the same way. -- rjbs
