* Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-30T23:07:22]
I wasn't talking specifically about anything... the recent discussion about
the above led me to post, but I was talking in general about the tendency of
module authors to be, in my opinion, overly eager to have dependencies on
other modules.
* Ricardo SIGNES [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-01 13:45]:
I bet more CPAN authors are the same way.
Yeah. I often vacillate a great deal about adding dependencies:
• I hate making things harder to install. I’m also loathe to give
up control if I can’t trust that the delegated responsibility
is
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Ricardo SIGNES [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-01 13:45]:
I bet more CPAN authors are the same way.
Yeah. I often vacillate a great deal about adding dependencies:
• I hate making things harder to install. I’m also loathe to give
up control if I
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:56:32PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
So there are several competing forces at play: how big is the job
I need done? Is it going to affect the API I expose? How good is
the module I am considering? How big? How many dependencies does
it in turn have? How much do
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-01 17:05]:
Installation and dependency chains are an issue best solved in
the context of _applications_.
That just moves the problem, though: an that uses modules with
lots of dependencies will demand more build engineering effort.
Regards,
--
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-01 17:05]:
Installation and dependency chains are an issue best solved in
the context of _applications_.
That just moves the problem, though: an that uses modules with
lots of dependencies will demand
Since anyone can upload code to CPAN, not all modules are of the same high
quality as others. I feel it is very important to vet each and every module
that I install. But with the auto-install behavior, modules that I want to
install may have dependencies on other modules that I don't feel
* Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-30T15:12:22]
Since anyone can upload code to CPAN, not all modules are of the same high
quality as others. I feel it is very important to vet each and every module
that I install. But with the auto-install behavior, modules that I want to
install may
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ricardo SIGNES
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-30T15:12:22]
Since anyone can upload code to CPAN, not all modules are of the same
high
quality as others. I feel it is very important to vet each and every
module
that I
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ricardo SIGNES
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-30T15:12:22]
Since anyone can upload code to CPAN, not all modules are of the same
high
quality as
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:12:22PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
So I don't like auto-install.
is someone stopping you from turning it off?
are you aware of the prerequisites_policy for CPAN.pm, or whatever its analogue
is for CPANPLUS?
hdp.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Hans Dieter Pearcey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:12:22PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
So I don't like auto-install.
is someone stopping you from turning it off?
are you aware of the prerequisites_policy for CPAN.pm, or whatever its
* David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-30T22:51:11]
That's not what he's talking about. He's talking about modules that
bundle Module::AutoInstall -- which runs CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS in a
subshell during make to install dependencies.
Are you sure? I think it's quite unclear.
--
rjbs
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