I now enforce a threaded perl during testing, not during execution. This should pacify cpantesters

t/00-load.t

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
+# require a threaded perl for my tests. This block lifted verbatim from the cpantesters wiki
+BEGIN {
+  use Config;
+  if (! $Config{'useithreads'}) {
+    print("1..0 # Skip: Perl not compiled with 'useithreads'\n");
+    exit(0);
+  }
+}
+
 use Test::More tests => 1;
 use Test::Script::Run;