Re: [Boston.pm] Module Dependencies

2003-11-24 Thread Ranga Nathan
Looks cool to me. Thanks pm'ers! John Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/24/2003 02:13 PM Please respond to johnseq To: Jeremy Muhlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Module

Re: [Boston.pm] Module Dependencies

2003-11-24 Thread John Sequeira
Jeremy Muhlich wrote: No need to use LWP. You can call CPAN directly: use CPAN; CPAN::install("Some::Module"); But why stop at writing a standalone script? How about a Devel:: module that watches for a failed require() call, installs the missing module, and continues? :) -- Jeremy You

Re: [Boston.pm] Module Dependencies

2003-11-24 Thread Jeremy Muhlich
No need to use LWP. You can call CPAN directly: use CPAN; CPAN::install("Some::Module"); But why stop at writing a standalone script? How about a Devel:: module that watches for a failed require() call, installs the missing module, and continues? :) -- Jeremy On Mon, 2003-11-24 at

[Boston.pm] Module Dependencies

2003-11-24 Thread Ranga Nathan
I had a horror weekend trying to satisfy all the dependencies for XML::XSLT. Despite the best efforts of authors and admins, it took a long time. It should be possible to compile a dependency tree for all the modules so it can be viewed or programmatically accessed. CPAN tries to do this to