Hi,
Twice recently, I've just been through the task of upgrading
CPAN.pm from 1.59_54 to 1.63 on a solaris system because
something about MD5 was broken enough that no modules could be
installed. It took a long time to do manually, because of the
dependency on Test::More, which depends on Test::Harness, and
because I didn't immediately know to look for Test::More in
Test::Simple.
So why does CPAN.pm depend on Test::More anyway? It only uses
it during its 'make test' phase, not during runtime operations.
And when you can't install modules very easily because you don't
have CPAN.pm working properly, it's, well, not very easy to
install other modules. ;-)
Seems like one of the following would be better:
1) Include a copy of Test::More and Test::Harness in a t/lib/
directory and use that
2) Rework the two Test::More-using tests (mirroredby.t and
Nox.t) to just use Test.pm
Or is this a sneaky way to get more people to install Test::More
on their machines?
-Ken
- Re: Removing CPAN's dependency on Test::More Ken Williams
- Re: Removing CPAN's dependency on Test::More Michael G Schwern