Re: [htmltmpl] Is HTML::Template pure Perl?

[Cees H. <ce...@si...>]

Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Carl Franks wrote:
>>To figure out if any other module is pure perl, search for it on
>>search.cpan.org Then follow the link with the module version number
>>(e.g.  HTML-Template-2.7).  Then click on the [Browse] link to view
>>the modules' files.  If there are no *.xs *.c or *.h files and no
>>'b' folder, then the module is probably pure perl.
> 
> Good advice, but there's one possibility you missed.  If a module uses
> Inline::C then it won't be pure Perl, even if it has no C source
> files.

Another thing to check for is the dependancies of a module.  The module 
itself may be pure perl, but it may depend on a module that is not.

As far as I can remember, HTML::Template only depends on modules that 
are included in a standard perl installation, so it does not require the 
installation of any extra modules (that excludes the caching modules 
like, IPC::SharedCache[1], but they are all optional).

Cheers,

Cees

[1] IPC::SharedCache depends on IPC::ShareLite which is an XS module