On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 06:55:22PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Some distributions strip down the Perl installation and don't install some
> "standard" modules.
> 
> I believe that Devel::Peek, as well as Devel::Refcount (missing for your
> macOS report) are only used in texi2any for internal correctness checking,
> and so it should not be a big deal for us not to require these modules.

Agreed.  I added Devel::Peek as a hard dependency because it is in Perl
core modules since long, but it is not such an important dependency,
especially since the bugs that are supposed to be found with those
modules are probably relatively independent of the platform.

I can have a look at that and make that kind of dependencies optional.

-- 
Pat

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