Re: Questions about creating CPAN modules

For the dependencies, I think your PREREQ_PM section is OK:

    PREREQ_PM => {
        'Test::More' => 0,
        'File::Temp' => 0,
        'Padre'      => 0.43,
    },
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Maybe the CPAN dependencies don't update as quickly.

As for requiring a "shell" environment, Module::Install has a function requires_external_bin, which allows you to specify external dependencies.

Personally, instead of relying on cat, which and sh, I would use Perl to implement these (well, except sh) to remove these dependencies instead of programming detections :).

About META.yml, I think make meta or something like that (re)creates that file.

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Re^2: Questions about creating CPAN modules by gsiems (Deacon) on Oct 13, 2009 at 11:23 UTC
Thanks, I'll have a study on Module::Install and it's `requires_external_bin`. `which`: Seek and ye shall find... I should have sought first. It appears that CPAN already has a File::Which. One down... `cat`: While there is a File::Cat, it appears to merely concatenate files, whereas I was using `cat` for it's ability to expand environment variables and assorted backticked commands. For example: cat <<EOT It is `date` and $USER needs more coffee. EOT [download] I'm not even sure where to begin to re-impliment that in perl. --gsiems	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Questions about creating CPAN modules by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2009 at 11:25 UTC
What you rely on is no magic on the part of `cat` but more on the part of `/bin/sh`, and no, there is no easy way to replicate that functionality as-is without writing a shell interpreter.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Questions about creating CPAN modules by gsiems (Deacon) on Oct 14, 2009 at 02:12 UTC
True... however, I don't know how else to do it without using `cat` as a wrapper of sorts. So, even though `cat` does not contain the magic it seems to be needed to enable the magic. --gsiems	[reply]