560795 - [Google] Note the dependency for version.pm in Google module with perl 5.8.x

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Webtools Graveyard :: Mozbot, defect)

Description

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

For the Google module to work on the perl 5.8.x branch, it needs version.pm from CPAN.  If that is missing, then it returns output like this

<user> load Google
<bot> Failed [4]: Can't locate version.pm in @INC (@INC contains: lib /lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at
<bot> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/REST/Google/Search.pm line 9, <$file> line 1.
<bot> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/REST/Google/Search.pm line 9, <$file> line 1.
<bot> Compilation failed in require at (eval 1854) line 19, <$file> line 1.
<bot> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1854) line 19, <$file> line 1.

We should note something about this in the User docs or the module itself.  Also if this dependency is anywhere else, we should note it.

I actually don't know why the module doesn't depend on it anyway when it installs on that branch, but since that is a bug with the REST::Google::Search module, I don't know where it can be reported or if it can be fixed.

Comment 1

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Contact the maintainer for the module. it should be listed on cpan.

Having better documentation for module dependencies would be nice, but aside from adding a note at the top of the module, this one module isn't special in any other way.

Comment 2

[Alexandr Ciornii]

REST::Google depends on version.pm (see list of dependencies at http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/EJS/REST-Google-1.0.8/Build.PL). I guess it was some installation error. How was REST::Google installed?