On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:52:50AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:47 AM, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 11. OS/arch/platform-specific requirements > > > > Proposal: > > > > I would like to see a way to specify OS-specific requirements. One option > > might be to use Devel::CheckOS, which already seems to have a comprehensive > > list of supported OS names, and have a hash like: > > Opposed. This would need a total rethink of prerequisites (e.g. can > 'optional features' have os-specific requirements? Madness). That is > probably not going to happen until 3.0.
Also opposed. Any OS list will change over time, and what may not work in a current OS, may be supported in a future version. I see this being better left to the Makefile.PL or Build.PL if the author feels stronglky enough to exclude certain OSes, etc. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
