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diff --git a/devel/p5-Task-Weaken/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Task-Weaken/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f579c31fc4c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-Task-Weaken/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +One recurring problem in modules that use Scalar::Util's weaken function is +that it is not present in the pure-perl variant. + +While this isn't necesarily always a problem in a straight CPAN-based Perl +environment, some operating system distributions only include the pure-Perl +versions, don't include the XS version, and so weaken is then "missing" from +the platform, despite passing a dependency on Scalar::Util successfully. + +Most notably this is RedHat Linux at time of writing, but other come and go +and do the same thing, hence "recurring problem". + +The normal solution is to manually write tests in each distribution to ensure +that weaken is available. + +This restores the functionality testing to a dependency you do once in your +Makefile.PL, rather than something you have to write extra tests for each +time you write a module. + +It should also help make the package auto-generators for the various +operating systems play more nicely, because it introduces a dependency that +they have to have a proper weaken in order to work. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Weaken/ |