[Refdb-devel] RefDB::Makestyle has dependency on Term::Clui

[Markus Hoenicka]

Hi David,

For those installing from source I think you need to include Term::Clui
in perlmod. You can find a tarzip in
<http://refdb.sourceforge.net/sources>.

I prefer to guide the users to CPAN if the module is officially
available. This way I don't need to keep track of newer versions, and
I also avoid users trying to install an outdated version shipped with
RefDB over a newer one already on their systems.

I've added Term::Clui to the configure tests and improved the warning
a little. The warning about missing Perl modules is now conditional,
i.e. it will only be displayed if at least one of the modules is
missing, and it clearly says so in this case. I hope this is
sufficient to make the users aware of this issue.

regards,
Markus

[David Nebauer]

Hi Markus,

The Perl library RefDB::Makestyle has a dependency on another Perl
library Term::Clui. Term::Clui isn't available as an official
distribution so I've hand rolled an autotools distro and Debian
package. I've added it as a package to the Debian refdb repositories.

For those installing from source I think you need to include Term::Clui
in perlmod. You can find a tarzip in
<http://refdb.sourceforge.net/sources>.

Regards,
David.

[David Nebauer]

Hi Markus,

For those installing from source I think you need to include Term::Clui in perlmod.

I prefer to guide the users to CPAN if the module is officially available.

Fair enough. I'm always thinking of the newbie who knows nothing about
Perl, CPAN, etc. -- but they've got to learn sometime...

Regards,
David.