I'd never thought about that issue before. You're right, the current behavior isn't great.
Your suggestion of die()ing during the Build.PL if ExtUtils::ParseXS isn't installed is probably a
little too drastic - after all, we don't even die when explicit prereqs are missing, we just warn.
Probably a warning here too would be good.
I'm thinking that the best mechanism would be to check whether the find_xs_files() method
returns a nonzero number of files.
-Ken
[JDHEDDEN - Mon Aug 22 11:15:20 2005]:
Show quoted text> Module::Build does not check for the existance of ExtUtils::ParseXS
> when
> Build.PL specifies the existance of XS files.
>
> If Build.PL specifies XS files, then "perl Build.PL" should 'die' if
> the optional module ExtUtils::ParseXS is not installed.
>
> The workaround is that users must add:
>
> build_requires => { ExtUtils::ParseXS => 0, }
>
> to their Build.PL. It that is to be required, then it should be
> documented in the POD.
