Hi Resa On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:37 +0200, Rhesa Rozendaal wrote: > On 07/07/2011 04:01 AM, Ron Savage wrote: > > Hi Josh > > > > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 21:23 -0400, Joshua Miller wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> This is kinda picking at a sore spot for me, and I haven't seen any good > >> place to bring it up in the past. > > > > I used to use 0 for all module versions, but that caused problems, so I > > adopted the policy of using what I had installed. > > > > I don't think there's a perfect answer, since the definitive solution > > (which is unrealistic) is to install many versions of many modules in > > order to test all cross-combinations. > > I'd let the CPAN Testers infrastructure take care of that. > http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/D/Data-Session.html includes Pass > results all the way back to 5.8.5 across a dozen operating systems. Any > failures due to prereqs being too old would show up soon enough.
This gives me another idea. Even though Perl 5.8.5 is ancient, that tester had Data::Dumper V 2.131 (the latest) installed. So, that suggests the plan would be to analyze all the pass results, and extract the minimum version used for each requirement. Has anyone done that? -- Ron Savage http://savage.net.au/ Ph: 0421 920 622 ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
