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.
it is not actually that easy to avoid a hard dependency on Devel::Peek, since loading it in an eval does not work. I'll investigate more, a possibility could be to reimplement the Devel::Peek::SvREFCNT function used from Devel::Peek as it should be a very simple wrapper around the SvREFCNT C function. -- Pat
