Re: Lancaster Consensus, deal with PUREPERL_ONLY=0

[email protected] (Peter Rabbitson)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 05:59:16PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> 
> Am 01.06.2014 um 15:03 schrieb David Golden <[email protected]>:
> 
> > The only thing specified in the lancaster consensus is what must
> > happen if that command-line argument is true.
> > 
> > I think making a distinction between "0" and undefined will be
> > surprising to people and I would recommend against it.
> 
> Given this point - how can we give people an instrument to force XS
> and fail if it's not available?

As I mentioned before - you create a separate ::XS distribution, against 
which the outliers declare dependencies. In general "forcing XS" when PP 
is available is *always* *invairably* the wrong approach (which is why 
they are called outliers above ;)
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