From: Jeff Squyres \(jsquyres\) (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-17 17:43:12


I would think it be acceptable that if LWP is not found, try to fail
over to some other mechanism (wget, etc.).
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mtt-users-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:mtt-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Ethan Mallove
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:45 AM
> To: General user list for the MPI Testing Tool
> Subject: Re: [MTT users] adding LWP::UserAgent to MTT repository
>
>
>
> Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote On 07/17/06 10:13,:
> > It might be ok to adapt the module to try to "include" it
> (vs. requiring
> > it) and if it's not there, fail over.
> >
> > Make sense?
>
>
> Do you mean adapt Perfbase.pm fail over if it can't find
> LWP::UserAgent? Or
> adapt LWP::UserAgent to failover if it can't find
> HTML::HeadParser (which I
> think needs Parser.so). Or both?
>
>
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: mtt-users-bounces_at_[hidden]
> >>[mailto:mtt-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Ethan Mallove
> >>Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:46 AM
> >>To: mtt-users_at_[hidden]
> >>Subject: [MTT users] adding LWP::UserAgent to MTT repository
> >>
> >>I thought it would be nice to not require users to have
> >>LWP::UserAgent installed
> >> (like we don't require them to have Config::IniFiles - it's
> >>part of the MTT
> >>repository), since LWP::UserAgent isn't listed as a standard module
> >>(https://www.linuxnotes.net/perlcd/prog/ch32_01.htm).
> >>However, LWP::UserAgent
> >>uses a platform dependent binary called Parser.so which makes
> >>the addition of
> >>LWP::UserAgent to the repos slightly more involved. E.g.,
> >>putting Parser.so in
> >>sparc, i386, etc. directories and getting UserAgent to look
> >>for them in the
> >>right place. For now, LWP::UserAgent can be put in a
> >>centralized location that
> >>the PERLLIB env var can point to.
> >>
> >>-Ethan
> >>
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