On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 18:51 -0800, Matisse Enzer wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > >> > > Even if it's in the perl core, the developer may have compiled with > > > > -Dnoextensions=Encode > > > > In such a case Encode is not present. I have skipped Encode many times > > because it takes up so much time, others may do likewise. > > > So, I think the bottom line here is: List them ALL in Makefile.PL/ > Build.PL
I've been yelled at in bug reports and on IRC for adding core modules as prereqs (think upgrading dual-life core modules on older Perl versions; I guess that's not always desirable.) I think the best solution would be something like: # Makefile.PL use 5.8.8; requires 'Encode'; # note that I'm not specifying a version; use 5.8.8 does that for me I think the real solution, though, is to agree that the perl interpreter without all of the core modules installed isn't Perl. (I'm not a big fan of core modules, but the concept is especially worthless if you can't depend on their existence.) Regards, Jonathan Rockway
