[Soaplite-devel] Pure Perl dependency chain?

[Lyle <web...@co...>]

  Hi All,
   I see from:-
http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=SOAP%3A%3ALite&perl=5.8.8&os=any+OS&pureperl=on
that SOAP::Lite depends on several XS modules. Compress::RAW::Zlib, 
Compress::RAW::Bzip2 are also required by LWP, so the chance of them not 
being in a minimal Perl install is... minimal. ExtUtils::ParseXS is only 
used by Test::POD so I'm assuming those tests would be skipped if not 
available. XML::Parser is the base of most XML modules, so likely to be 
installed, especially as it's included with ActiveState by default.
   Which leaves Net::SSLeay, again I'm going to assume it's only loaded 
if the SSL features in SOAP::Lite are used... Is there a PurePerl 
alternative here? I understand that it would be painfully slow, but I 
really need to keep a Pure Perl dependency chain for this project.


Lyle