On Sat, January 24, 2009 8:07 pm, Lyle wrote: > Hi All, > Looking more at makefiles, in your Makefile.PL or Build.PL you have > the usual pre-requisites in PREREQ_PM. But what if your Perl module > requires other modules Only if certain features are used. Is there a > possible requisites you can define? So that when the module is built with > cpan, it pauses asking if you want the extra modules installed and > defaults to no if you don't respond is 30 seconds?
META.yml and Module::Build support recommends as well as requires ( http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-current.html#recommends , http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Module::Build::Authoring#PREREQUISITES ) How that is responded to is up to the installer.
