[Koha-devel] Require only core modules for Makefile.PL? (was Re: Database updates)

[Chris Cormack]

On 28 December 2012 07:51, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com> wrote:
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>> Additionally, you will need to install File::Find::Rule
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> ... before one can run perl Makefile.PL to do a new installation.  I don't think that (in this case, indirectly) requiring a non-core Perl module to run the first step of the installation after unpacking the tarball is a good idea.  I've opened bug 9328 to discuss the specifics, but I think there's a minor coding principle to discuss: should we have an explicit requirement that only core modules be necessary to start the installation?
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> [1] http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9328
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+1

Chris