README for Perl extension File-Copy-Recursive-Reduced File-Copy-Recursive-Reduced is a Perl library which provides subroutines exported on request which are intended to serve as drop-in replacements for certain subroutines found in CPAN distribution File-Copy-Recursive (FCR). What Problem Does This Library Address? Because of certain problems in FCR, it is currently (April 2018) failing to install on several important operating systems including FreeBSD and Windows. As a consequence, other CPAN distributions which have a direct or indirect dependency on File-Copy-Recursive (*e.g.*, CPAN-Reporter, DateTime, Dist-Zilla) are failing to install on those platforms as well. Such failures are "silent" in the sense that CPANtesters installations generate no report authors when a distribution's upstream dependencies fail to install. No report to the CPANtesters database means no email notification to CPAN authors. So many authors may be unaware that their distributions are currently failing to install on important platforms. A patch has been submitted to address the problems in FCR. However, until it is applied and a new CPAN release made, consumers of FCR should consider using the replacement functions exported by File-Copy-Recursive-Reduced. Install This library can be installed in the customary way, *i.e.,* by a CPAN installer program such as cpan or cpanm or by satisfying its prerequisites (Capture::Tiny and Path::Tiny, for the test suite only) and then calling: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install For further information, after installation call "perldoc File::Copy::Recursive::Reduced".