Hi It should be only syntax sugar - it would be good to check that modules are present and print some message in case they are missing, but it is too late to do this in WriteMakefile.
2009/4/10 Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com>: > Looking at merging the configure_requires branch: > http://github.com/schwern/extutils-makemaker/tree/configure_requires > > Is this really anything more than syntax sugar for... > > META_ADD => { > configure_requires => { ... }, > } > > Should it do anything more? > > I guess any sort of checks on the requirements is kind of moot, either > Makefile.PL is going to work or its not. > > Thoughts? -- Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net