# from Adam Kennedy
# on Saturday 21 March 2009 16:48:
>What exactly would "compiler_required" mean (or imply) and is it still
>useful even though initially (for the first 5 years at least) there
>won't be very good coverage of it?
It's probably more useful for cpan-wide analysis tools and specialty
builders than anything to do with the cpan clients.
I think there's also some use from the MYMETA.yml angle where one could
conceivably use that to easily track whether something had a binary
module in it for fun stuff like e.g. sitewide deployment on multiple
architectures.
So, I think it's something with a yes|no|maybe value (though never maybe
in MYMETA.yml) and maybe pure_perl is the name, but :-/
--Eric
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