v2.213 : build requirement Pod::Markdown ???

[Corin-EU]

When building the lastest v2.213 version of Compress-Raw-Lzma, the warning is given --

"Warning: prerequisite Pod::Markdown 0 not found."

Why is this the case?

The module "Pod::Markdown" does not appear to be used at all and the related modules "Compress-Raw-Bzip2" and "Compress-Raw-Zlib" have no such requirement.

[pmqs]

When building the lastest v2.213 version of Compress-Raw-Lzma, the warning is given --

"Warning: prerequisite Pod::Markdown 0 not found."

Why is this the case?

It's just testing that the POD documentation in the module is can get rendered correctly in markdown. You are getting the warning because you don't have the prerequisite module, Pod::Markdown, installed. You can safely ignore the warning.

The module "Pod::Markdown" does not appear to be used at all and the related modules "Compress-Raw-Bzip2" and "Compress-Raw-Zlib" have no such requirement.

Likely reason it isn't in the other related modules is because I probably forgot to do it.

[Corin-EU]

Thanks for your response.

Installing Pod:Marrkdown also requires the dependencies Pod::Simple (which then needs Pod:Escape) and Pod::Usage (which then needs Pod:Perldoc , which then needs other Pod modules) and so the dependency tree just keeps growing and growing to get rid of the warning.

May I suggest that this should be marked as is the case for other CPAN modules testing regimes as something like "Maintainer/Release Test Only" if Pod:Markdown is not found, as it is not in fact a "prerequisite" for building and installing Compress-Raw-Lzma.

Thanks for your understanding!