This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Generate module dependencies easily =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Sep 2000 Last Modified: 26 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 289 Version: 2 Status: Frozen =head1 ABSTRACT Perl6 should ship with a simple utility that shows all modules a program uses, and all modules those modules use. =head1 DESCRIPTION Tom Christiansen proposed this in his perl6storm message: =item perl6storm #0043 Write something that spits out module dependencies. Like makedep. A tool that sources but doesn't run? a program/module then spits out %INC might suffice. Can we autobundle with CPAN tricks? This feature will be useful for quite a number of uses, including bundling modules for distribution, and generating snapshots of large Perl programs. Curtis Jewell noticed that this will not be able to detect runtime dependencies, such as those coming from eval'ed code. This could be handled by adding extensions to the language, adding POD constructs that a dependency checker will examine, or possibly other means. Even if the dependency checker could not detect runtime dependencies, it would still be damn useful. =head1 IMPLEMENTATION This feature is probably best implemented through a standard module used as a compiler backend. =head1 REFERENCES perl6storm
