On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:35:52PM -0400, Robert Rothenberg wrote: > I am looking for information on CPAN module dependencies. Specifically, > does somebody maintain and regularly update such a list? > > The reason is that I would like to integreate this with testing information > from the CPAN Testers. So if I find that there are no testing results for > platform 'x' for a specific module, I can check to see if one of the > dependent modules fail on that platform.
Most modules now have a META.yml file which contains (amongst other things) module dependency information. Simplest thing to do would be to make a local miniCPAN mirror [1] and walk through the archive files [2] in modules/02packages.details.txt looking for META.yml. [1] http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col42.html [2] Archive::Any will come in handy -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ the chair. it wants to die. oh no! she sees me! she attacks!
