Re: Perl Modules

Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanatbugzilla.org> wrote:
>
>>         Yes, and that's mostly because we come from
a Linux background.
>> That is, to us it's natural to install a bunch of
dependencies like
>> MySQL, Apache, and perl, because those will
probably already be on our
>> systems anyway and if they're not, they're
available through the
>> package manager.
>
> That used to be true. IMO, it is no longer the case
with 3.0. Fetching
> and installing all those thousands of mail related
modules to a
> machine without Internet access was a true night mare.
I know this was a hassle for us.  Our bugzilla is on a
private LAN which 
is physically isolated from the Internet.  As far as distros
eventually 
coming with the packages installed: this may be true, but
you can't 
expect that somebody setting up bugzilla (or upgrading it)
is going to 
install a new OS just so they have all the standard modules.
 I expect 
the next time we upgrade to the next version of Bugzilla
that there will 
be some new Perl module that we don't have on that machine.

I would like to see either a single .tar.gz that can be
downloaded with 
Bugzilla which has the latest versions of all the Perl
modules it 
depends on, or a page which lists the ones needed with links
to the CPAN 
download site for each one.  At least that way, they're all
in one place 
and easy to find.

I do like that the check setup script tells you up front all
the modules 
you're missing.  For comparison, I was trying to build the
latest 
version of Gnome this weekend, and every 15 min it stopped
and told me I 
needed a new version of Python or ImageMagick or some
library I'd never 
even heard of.
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Dave Williss wrote on 4/30/07 3:24 PM:

> I would like to see either a single .tar.gz that can be
downloaded with
> Bugzilla which has the latest versions of all the Perl
modules it
> depends on, or a page which lists the ones needed with
links to the CPAN
> download site for each one.  At least that way, they're
all in one place
> and easy to find.

Someone already posted a page like this for Ubuntu packages
on the
wiki... I just renamed and expanded on the page to include
other
distributions and CPAN, though it's still a bit incomplete. 
If anyone
wants to fill in the blanks before I get a chance to get
back to it,
feel free. 

http:/
/wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Prerequisites

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