Rex::Group::Lookup::XML introduced a heavy dependcy to Rex

[fanyeren]

XML::LibXML is not shipped by ditros default, and is difficult to installed in many older systems, in our dept, we have 20k machines with RHEL 4.6, i spent several hours, but still failed to install.

so i doubt is there anybody who really needed this feature in production?

[krimdomu]

Hi fanyeren,

i checked back to centos 5 but didn't realized that there are stil rhel 4 in production.

You only need XML::LibXML when you want to use the xml module to create groups. So you can just skip this dependency as a workaround.

I'm going to think about how i can make this an optional dependency.

[nathanIL]

Hi,

Actually I use this in production (-: but not in RHEL 4.
It can be easily skipped during build & tests.

thanks,

[fanyeren]

i can skip it, just need to delete one line before typping "perl Makefile.PL"

is this a far-too complexed toy that we dont need it at all?

[krimdomu]

The XML::LibXML dependency is now optional. (ebec187)