XML::Simple 2.15 should be winging its way to a CPAN mirror near you. To those people who have been waiting for a release - thanks for your patience. The full change log is here but it's mostly small stuff. The biggest changes are in Makefile.PL ...
If this version finds that the target machine has a broken parser module, then Makefile.PL will fail with a message explaining what is wrong and how to fix it - ie: it won't generate a Makefile so it won't get as far as trying (and failing) to run tests.
If there's no parser module at all then the normal automatic dependency resolution should pull in a reasonable default, although it will require that libexpat is installed and a compiler is available.
