Re: [Module-build-general] ExtUtils::ParseXS & 5.00503

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 03:35  PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> Module::Build passes most of its tests with 5.00503 now, but
> ExtUtils::ParseXS does not.  There are two things in EU::ParseXS that 
> need
> fixing.  One if the "open my $fh" idiom, which is simple enough to fix.
>
> But it also uses the "(??{$foo})" regex feature, which is not present 
> in
> 5.00503.  I don't think replacing this would be simple, to say the 
> least
> ;)  I think the easiest way to do this would be to use Text::Balanced, 
> but
> this introduces another dependency, and would require a fair bit of 
> code
> surgery.  I could take a shot if you want, Ken.

It would be great, of course - but a simpler solution might be to just 
fix the warning buzzers so that optional modules don't look like 
required modules to the user.  M::B should work fine without 
EU::ParseXS, using whatever xsubpp is on the machine.

In the future we might want to really depend on EU::ParseXS, but so far 
it'll do fine with either.

  -Ken