I'm sorry Corion, I should have said that I'm aware of such workarounds and don't feel they are appropriate. The sort of hack you are suggesting does not declare to CPAN tools that e.g. parse META.yml that there are two alternatives available.

"Choose/specify a default" very much defeats the purpose of an Any module in the first place. Net::HTTPS::Any is unlike Any::Moose, for example - one of the two alternatives is not smaller/lighter-weight than the other and neither is an appropriate default.

So I'm interested in whether or not there is an actual solution. A definitive "there is no way to declare a dependency on A or B" is certainly useful information as well!

Thanks again monks for any wisdom you have to offer.

In reply to Re^2: CPAN module dependencies: possible to depend on A OR B by ivan
in thread CPAN module dependencies: possible to depend on A OR B by ivan

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