Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Expect 1.30 - change in behavior

[Gabor S. <ga...@sz...>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Bryan Bueter <br...@bu...>
wrote:

> Gabor,
>
> Hello, I am the author of rover (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rover/) a
> tool that uses Expect.  I have done some testing and my latest CVS code
> works just fine with the new 1.30.
>

thanks!


>
> However I do have some comments:
>
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.70 is required but the only new feature I see needed
> is the TEST_REQUIRES parameter.  This was introduced in 6.63.  I tested
> 6.64 and it builds the Makefile without issue and installs Expect
> successfully.
>
> Using an older MakeMaker will help make this build-able on many platforms.
>  Some MM versions on various systems I support are:
>
>   Ubuntu 8.04  = 6.30
>   Ubuntu 12.04 = 6.57
>   Ubuntu 14.04 = 6.72
>   RedHat ES 5  = 6.30
>   RedHat ES 6  = 6.55
>   CentOS 6     = 6.55 (clone of RedHat)
>   AIX 5.3      = 6.30
>   AIX 6.1      = 6.55
>   AIX 7.1      = 6.63
>
>
In the next version I'll remove the version requirement from
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
and will add the Test::* modules to the PREREQ_PM if ExtUtils::MakeMaker is
too
old and does not have TEST_REQUIRES yet.



>
> Also when making Expect, warnings were thrown for IO::Pty v1.11 not being
> installed but i was able to continue.  Expect fails to load without 1.11
> however.  I recommend setting PREREQ_FATAL to true in order to avoid this
> behavior.
>

I read a bit about PREREQ_FATAL and it is not recommended. The cpan client
should recognize when a prerequisite is missing and install it. I am not
sure
why does it not happen in your case.



>
> Finally, it seems that installing Expect on ubuntu somehow removed
> IO::Stty?  I need to test this more to validate.  It did not remove it on
> CentOS when i installed so this may be on my end.
>
>
That's strange. cpan clients don't remove stuff.
There was an intermediate version I released that required IO::Stty,
but I have reverted that and it is not a required dependency any more.


 Gabor