Alien:: distributions on CPAN (see https://github.com/Perl5-Alien ) should not be made an optional requirement by their reverse deps because this will mean duplicate logic at best, and a broken build process at worst.
For more info and some solutions for common problems, see: * https://github.com/petdance/html-tidy5/pull/9 * https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=125972 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ https://github.com/shlomif/what-you-should-know-about-automated-testing I don’t believe in fairies. Oops! A fairy died. I don’t believe in fairies. Oops! Another fairy died. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
