> this however clashes with the forks.pm module: forks.pm is supposed > to supply an ithreads compatible API, without having to have a > threads enable perl.
Interesting, but I'm not going to attempt to support the 'forks' module (at least not just yet). Looking over its docs, I found that if users really want to, they can install 'forks' as though it were 'threads'. They could then force the installation of whatever Thread::* modules they then want to use.