[GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

[Bruce Schuck]

On 5/3/24 11:36 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:

> I looked at Makefile.PL for 1.61 source at CPAN and it does NOT have CPAN
> listed in PREREQ_PM or in %FallbackPrereqs. Might be worth adding to it...
Most GnuCash users can (and probably should...) likely ignore this post. 
Any further discussion should be taken offline of the GnuCash user list.

Kalpesh,

Makefile.PL gets created when Dist::Zilla (aka dzil) creates the tarball 
for uploading to CPAN.

Please understand what the prerequisites listed in the GitHub repo 
dist.ini file and package Makefile.PL and META files are. Those are 
modules that the module being installed requires to build, run, and 
test. Technically CPAN is *not* required for that. CPAN (and CPAN Minus) 
is a tool that simplifies the module install process for both novice and 
expert Perl users. One would not be able to execute "cpan 
Finance::Quote" or "perl -MCPAN -e shell" *unless* CPAN were already 
installed. Your suggestion to add it to the module prereqs is the same 
as suggesting that *every* single Perl module on CPAN should have it 
included as a prerequisite.

But that said, either the GnuCash and/or F::Q docs/wiki would probably 
benefit from an overview on how to check if CPAN is installed, and how 
to install CPAN if it is not already installed.

Bruce S.