Re: PAR/pp and missing modules

On 19 Sep 2004 at 1:23, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> On approximately 9/19/2004 12:27 AM, came the following characters from 
> the keyboard of Autrijus Tang:
> > On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:35:47PM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> > 

> > Yes: "pp -c" will report "use Module ()" errors, and "pp -x" will also
> > do that, as well as reporting "require Module" errors.
> 
> Thanks.  And here I thought I could read the documentation!  I guess I 
> skipped those because (1) they look like they do "more than the usual 
> work" to analyze dependencies (2) when all the Modules actually exist, 
> they do get included with the "usual work" (3) they don't mention a 
> thing about giving extra warnings.
> 

Using -c or -x runs your script thru perl. It isn't PAR giving you errors, it's 
perl. 
The only true test of a script is what perl thinks. ScanDeps takes a wide shot 
at 
detecting things and would generate a lot of false errors, so it silently gets 
what it 
can.

Alan Stewart