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How do you test your Perl module to check if Makefile.PL declares all dependencies?


I would like to write a t/00-check-deps.t module to find all dependencies in MyModule.pm and make sure they exist in Makefile.PL before release.

This way when I do make test before distributing to CPAN I will know that nothing was forgotten prior to publishing. I've looked at the ExtUtils suite, but I've not seen anything obvious that already solves this. It seems like a common issue people would want to solve.

How would you do this?


Solution

  • Here is how I would do it. Thanks @ikegami for the scandeps hint:

    find lib -name '*.pm' | xargs scandeps.pl -R | \
      perl -MJSON -le '
        undef $/; 
        %d=eval(<STDIN>);
        $j=JSON::from_json(`cat MYMETA.json`); 
        foreach (keys(%d)) {
          warn "Missing: $_ => $d{$_}\n" if !defined($j->{prereqs}{runtime}{requires}{$_}) 
        }
        '
    

    prints:

    Missing: Carp => 1.42
    Missing: PDL::Constants => 0.02
    Missing: Exporter => 5.72
    Missing: constant => 1.33
    Missing: PDL => 2.080
    Missing: PDL::LinearAlgebra => 0.35
    Missing: PDL::Ops => undef