[Petal] [Utils] Install errors

[Steve Purkis]

I can honestly say: it's not a bug, it's a feature :-)

Amongst other things, Module::Build lets you specify 'required' 
modules, and 'recommended' modules separately.

Date::Format is recommended, not required.  Only P::Utils::Date uses 
it, so if you never use the date: modifier, you're not forced to 
install a module you may never use.

-Steve


On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:10  am, William McKee wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Just tried to install Petal::Utils onto one of my production servers
> (Perl 5.6.1, CPAN 1.76). Got the following warning but installation
> continued which resulted in error messages during tests:
>
> ---------------------------
> WARNING: Date::Format: Prerequisite Date::Format isn't installed
> ERRORS/WARNINGS FOUND IN PREREQUISITES.  You may wish to install the
> versions
>  of the modules indicated above before proceeding with this
> installation.
> ---------------------------
>
> Is this a problem with Module::Build? CPAN usu. follows prereq's
> automatically for me.
>
> Thanks,
> William
>
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