It would be really neat if you could check perl dependencies from a topic by calling checkDependencies. For example, if I could write:

%CHECKPERLMODULE{package="File::Spec"}%

and get a testenv-like report. And

%CHECKPERLMODULE{package="TWiki::Plugins::TablePlugin" version=">=1.200"}%

Plugin topics could then be written to include these version checks and provide testenv-like feedback to the installer.

Note that this is not be strictly necessary if the plugin is written to check it's dependencies as recommended in the FuncDotPm module, but it would be a definite "nice to have".

-- CrawfordCurrie - 16 Aug 2004