"Quite a lot of the time I avoid long (and broad) dependency chains"

As do I, quite a lot of the time. Here I was responding to what the OP wrote:

Among other modules, I've installed Chart::Clicker (not sure now but probably with cpanminus) because found on the web that it is a simple yet powerful tool for plotting graphs etc. It was very surprising to see that it resulted in 102 distributions installed! The examples for that module work very well and graphs are really nice but I would have a question: ok, for a desktop computer the number of these modules is maybe not important but for the server, is it recommended to have just that so demanding module or work with some others?

It's difficult to imagine a solution producing high quality graphs from a system graphics library -- his stated aim here -- that doesn't require both a lot of dependencies and a large memory footprint. It's also difficult to imagine that he won't sooner or later wind up installing Moose, like it or not. My comment was intended to put his mind at ease about what seemed questionable to him.


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^3: Perl modules, was: Re^11: Begginer's question: If loops one after the other. Is that code correct? by 1nickt
in thread Begginer's question: If loops one after the other. Is that code correct? by predrag

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