Hi, Felix Lechner (2021-12-05): > Moo performs faster when Class::XSAccessor is available [1] but > libmoo-perl only Recommends it. More important, Moo's behavior changes > when Class::XSAccessor is installed. [1] For consistency as well as > performance, Moo should probably Depend on libclass-xsaccessor-perl. > > While a new, hard prerequisite may cause some programs using Moo to > fail unexpectedly, they would at least do so consistently. It would > eliminate a transient class of bugs that depends on whether > Class::XSAccessor is present on a reporter's system—something that can > be hard to pin down when the installable is only recommended.
I agree with your reasoning. I'm 90% convinced we should do this but I'd first like to understand why upstream chose to only recommend Class::XSAccessor: their reasoning might make sense for us too :) Would you mind asking upstream about this? Thanks in advance!
