Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-05 Thread Sam Vilain
Johan Vromans wrote: > Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> My intention when I added 'build_requires' to Module::Build was not >> to let people avoid downloading & building those dependencies, but >> rather to indicate that there was no runtime dependency, ... > > For this to function p

Re: Indexing for AI-Prolog-0.735_01?

2006-08-05 Thread Joshua ben Jore
On 8/5/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message From: Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > BTW, you might want to add a "see also" in the AI::Prolog docs for > the SWI-Prolog wrapper? Probably a good idea. It's recommended in AI::Prolog::Article, but that's about it. Al

Re: Indexing for AI-Prolog-0.735_01?

2006-08-05 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > BTW, you might want to add a "see also" in the AI::Prolog docs for > the SWI-Prolog wrapper? Probably a good idea. It's recommended in AI::Prolog::Article, but that's about it. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a respons

Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-05 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:27:09AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That seems wrong. Every module you install contains lists of > > dependencies, one list for runtime, one for build-time. > > > > The CPAN shell won?t ask questions about missing depend

Re: Indexing for AI-Prolog-0.735_01?

2006-08-05 Thread Ken Williams
BTW, you might want to add a "see also" in the AI::Prolog docs for the SWI-Prolog wrapper? -Ken On Aug 4, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Joshua ben Jore wrote: PAUSE says to send problems to modules@perl.org but perl.org's web page says that's a closed list?! So now this is two problems. One is why PAU

Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-05 Thread Ken Williams
On Aug 5, 2006, at 4:27 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: If Test::Ridiculous were not installed, I could chase down the perl installation to find out what files were added[2], and distribute these to the production systems. Now I have to manually weed out the files that are not needed for production.

Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-05 Thread Ken Williams
On Aug 4, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: As already mentioned by other people in other threads, if you prepare install kits for many systems, you would not want to install all the build-time requirements, only the run-time requirements. If the "install kit" is essentially a binary di

Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-05 Thread Ken Williams
On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: My intention when I added 'build_requires' to Module::Build was not to let people avoid downloading & building those dependencies, but rather to indicate that there was no runtime dependency, ... For t

Re: Test-time dependencies.

2006-08-05 Thread Johan Vromans
"A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That seems wrong. Every module you install contains lists of > dependencies, one list for runtime, one for build-time. > > The CPAN shell won’t ask questions about missing dependencies, > that is true. But why does that matter? You have the dependency >