While the upgrade to support configure-time dependencies has been finished now (5.10.1 is where it hit core) we haven't yet started to the deprecation of support for older clients.
The plan as I understand it is that at some point in the future, M:B and M:I and friends will trap missing configure-time dependencies and provide big warnings that people's toolchain is fatally out of date and that they need to do a one-time-only upgrade. Adam K 2010/3/31 Alberto Simões <al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>: > Dear MB users, > > What is the best procedure to prepare a Build.PL script where it needs a > non-standard module? > > While it gets into META.yml, this file is read only if CPAN has YAML > support. If not, it will run Build.PL anyway, and will fail. > > Is there any standard way to solve this issue? > > All the best, > ambs > -- > Alberto Simões >