* Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> [2010-05-11 05:00]: > Also, the approach Dist::Zilla takes with the > 'configure_requires' and 'build_requires' keys is to remove > them when running on an older version of EU:MM. > > Is a better approach to add them to 'requires', but only on > older versions of EU::MM, so that the generated code has those > extra details on platforms that don't support the newer fields?
By the time Makefile.PL runs, it is already too late to satisfy an unmet `configure_requires` dependency. There is simply nothing you can do on such old installations. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>