Well, the compile problem exist on Win32, and other OS that doesn't come with C/C++ compilers.

You say that for Win32 we need MSVC. Well, it compiles fine with MSVC++ 6, but it's not free! Take a look on MingW (http://mingw.sourceforge.net). Now it's very stable, and don't need much sets to compile Perl (just read the compile notes first!).

Pure Perl modules are good things. But XS modules exist not only to get speed. Some times the code only can be in C/C++, specially GUI modules.

I think that CPAN can introduce this option to filer XS modules too. And is not a hard thing to do, but they need to reindex all the modules, to filter MANIFEST, and update the PAUSE script to index new modules.

Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

In reply to Re: The quest for pure perl by gmpassos
in thread The quest for pure perl by rinceWind

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