Bug #7004 for SQL-Translator: Make some dependencies optional!

Mon Jul 19 07:00:43 2004 simon [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Make some dependencies optional!

SQL-Translator depends on all sorts of libraries including XML processing, GD and Graphviz. All of these require external C libraries, so can't be installed just from CPAN. None of them are actually fundamental to SQL::Translator's operation; they're add-ons at best. Please can you declare these as optional packages in your Makefile.PL? (ExtUtils::AutoInstall is a good way to do this.) Users of my modules are asking me why they need to find, compile and install dot and neato in order to archive their mail, and I don't have a sensible answer for them. Thanks, Simon

Mon Sep 13 14:19:30 2004 kclark [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'

Mon Sep 13 14:19:30 2004 kclark [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 1 min

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The new 0.06 version uses Module::Build to declare optional dependencies. ky [SIMON - Mon Jul 19 07:00:43 2004]: Show quoted text

> > SQL-Translator depends on all sorts of libraries including XML > processing, GD and Graphviz. > All of these require external C libraries, so can't be installed just > from CPAN. None of them > are actually fundamental to SQL::Translator's operation; they're add- > ons at best. > > Please can you declare these as optional packages in your Makefile.PL? > (ExtUtils::AutoInstall > is a good way to do this.) Users of my modules are asking me why they > need to find, compile > and install dot and neato in order to archive their mail, and I don't > have a sensible answer > for them. > > Thanks, > Simon

Mon Sep 13 14:19:30 2004 kclark [...] cpan.org - Given to KCLARK