[% setvar title Generate module dependencies easily %]
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<a name='TITLE'></a><h1>TITLE</h1>
<p>Generate module dependencies easily</p>
<a name='VERSION'></a><h1>VERSION</h1>
<pre>  Maintainer: Adam Turoff &lt;<a href='mailto:ziggy@panix.com'>ziggy@panix.com</a>&gt;
  Date: 24 Sep 2000
  Last Modified: 26 Sep 2000
  Mailing List: <a href='mailto:perl6-stdlib@perl.org'>perl6-stdlib@perl.org</a>
  Number: 289
  Version: 2
  Status: Frozen</pre>
<a name='ABSTRACT'></a><h1>ABSTRACT</h1>
<p>Perl6 should ship with a simple utility that shows all modules a program
uses, and all modules those modules use.</p>
<a name='DESCRIPTION'></a><h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>
<p>Tom Christiansen proposed this in his perl6storm message:</p>
<pre>	=item perl6storm #0043

	Write something that spits out module dependencies.  Like makedep.
	A tool that sources but doesn't run? a program/module then spits
	out %INC might suffice.  Can we autobundle with CPAN tricks?</pre>
<p>This feature will be useful for quite a number of uses, including bundling
modules for distribution, and generating snapshots of large Perl programs.</p>
<p>Curtis Jewell noticed that this will not be able to detect runtime
dependencies, such as those coming from eval'ed code.  This could be
handled by adding extensions to the language, adding POD constructs
that a dependency checker will examine, or possibly other means.</p>
<p>Even if the dependency checker could not detect runtime dependencies,
it would still be damn useful.</p>
<a name='IMPLEMENTATION'></a><h1>IMPLEMENTATION</h1>
<p>This feature is probably best implemented through a standard module used as
a compiler backend.</p>
<a name='REFERENCES'></a><h1>REFERENCES</h1>
<p>perl6storm</p>
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