| Subject: | scandeps.(bat|pl) is confusing when it comes to CPAN / core modules |
Hi,
I have a few issues here. Some may just be my lack of understanding but
hopefully not all:
i) When I first ran scandeps I did so without CPANPLUS installed.
However, the .(pl|bat) didn't give me a warning even though I used the -
B option. It should which should be fairly easy to add this in the
_modtree subrountine.
ii) Because of (i) all my modules were marked as ? which in the legend
means "NotOnCPAN". However, that's not actually true so it'd be clearer
to say "NotFoundOnCPAN".
iii) In the case where -B isn't specified to the .(pl|bat) all of my
modules were marked with ? which according to the legend
means "NotOnCPAN". However, no check was made so no modules should be
marked at all with a ? or even a S. NB even if you fix (ii) as
suggested this would still apply.
iv)There are some typos in the documentation:
A) "If you have CPANPLUS installed, modules that are part of an earlier
module's distribution with be denoted with S;" should be "If you have
CPANPLUS installed, modules that are part of an earlier module's
distribution will be denoted with S;".
B) "Also, if the -B option is specified, module belongs to a perl
distribution on CPAN (and thus uninstallable by CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS.pm)
are marked with C." should be "Also, if the -B option is specified,
modules belonging to a perl distribution on CPAN (and thus
uninstallable by CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS.pm) are marked with C."
v) The following sentence is confusing "Also, if the -B option is
specified, module belongs to a perl distribution on CPAN". Do you
actualy mean: "Also, if the -B option is specified, module belongs to
the core perl distribution on CPAN"?
I think some of the confusion arises because the -B option does more
than one thing. E.g. it:
I) Checks if a module is part of perl's Core (by seeing if it's in
$Config::Config{privlib} or $Config::Config{archlib}.
II) Looks up a module on CPAN.
I suggest that -B becomes two different options to separate the two
things it does. Then the inputs would follow the output of the .
(pl|bat) which does have this separation.
FYI, I'm using the following:
* Module-ScanDeps [0.70]
* perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread, Binary build 810
provided by ActiveState Corp.
* Windows XP, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
Regards,
Adrian