Re: Cairo 1.042 available

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandriva com>]

Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> writes:

> > > Overview of changes in Cairo 1.042
> > > [...]
> >
> > This force packaging Test::Number::Delta ...
>
> Well, unless installing the package necessarily means running the
> test suite, no, you don't need to make your Cairo package depend on
> a Test::Number::Delta package.  Test::Number::Delta is only needed
> to run the test suite.  It's not needed at run-time.

sure:

$ perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
Writing build/IFiles.pm
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found (Test::Number::Delta not installed)

               Please install these modules first and rerun 'perl Makefile.PL'. 

> I looked into getting rid of the dependency on it, but the amount of
> functionality I use in Cairo is substantial enough that I don't just
> want to copy the relevant functions.  There'd be no point to CPAN if
> everybody did that.