Hello dear esteemed monks,

Say I have an example script in my CPAN module's distribution. Over the course of module development it grew and gained enough features, robustness, and documentation to be considered a tool on its own. However, it also uses other modules that are not used by my module, and I don't want to introduce extra dependencies. Say the module is about data processing and tool uses drawing tools to visualize the data.

Now here are some options I see:

• Just add extra dependencies - but I don't want to clutter my users' systems.
• Split the tool into separate project (App::mytoolname) - would make development somewhat tricky.
• Make my tool look up required dependencies and ask politely to install them if missing.

Looks like option 2 is the way to go, but how can I do it? Keep 2 CPAN packages in the same repository? Maybe I can tweak Makefile to copy a script to a separate location an process it there?

Or maybe there's a fourth option I miss completely? Where should I look for example?

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