Way too many non-core dependencies [rt.cpan.org #71661]

[xdg]

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71661

Hi, 

CPAN::Reporter has way too many dependencies. Also, before any reports 
can be sent, Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase is required and that 
has even more dependencies, by an order of magnitude. I'm talking about 
setting up a fresh install of the perl interpreter and a clean, new 
lib/.

All the time that these dependencies are installing, warnings are 
emitted from CPAN::Reporter. At the least, these should be suppressed. I 
suppose I could 'o conf' cpan and disable; but why? 

Anyway, no reports are going to be sent during installation of this 
module and its dependencies. Suggest cutting back on the deps. 

XIONG@cpan.org

[eserte]

In the original RT ticket I offered a script sending filed reports, created on a system without a Metabase client. Here it is: https://github.com/eserte/srezic-misc/blob/master/scripts/send_tr_reports.pl

[jkeenan]

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71661

Hi, 

CPAN::Reporter has way too many dependencies. Also, before any reports 
can be sent, Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase is required and that 
has even more dependencies, by an order of magnitude. I'm talking about 
setting up a fresh install of the perl interpreter and a clean, new 
lib/.

All the time that these dependencies are installing, warnings are 
emitted from CPAN::Reporter. At the least, these should be suppressed. I 
suppose I could 'o conf' cpan and disable; but why? 

Anyway, no reports are going to be sent during installation of this 
module and its dependencies. Suggest cutting back on the deps. 

XIONG@cpan.org

Yes, I wish that the prerequisites were fewer in number and loaded more quickly. But I suspect that most of the major time-savers were explored at Perl QA hackathons over the years.

@eserte, in a reply in the RT ticket from which this GH issue was transferred, supplied a reasonable work-around for the original poster's problem. Since we haven't heard back from the OP at all, I proposed that we close this ticket.