Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> writes: > 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 guess 'cpan' always exists, so it can be installed from there. I don't think Alpine Linux, for example, allows you to easily install 'cpan'. At least, that is what I remember when trying to install Expect.pm for testing GNU coreutils. So maybe making them optional is best. Collin
