On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 02:24:27PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 21:41:44 +0100 > Barbie <bar...@missbarbell.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Shlomi I think you've missed the point. Your distribution requires a > > minimum version of 0 for XML-Writer, except it doesn't work with these > > lower versions of XML-Writer. You need to set a specific minimum version > > required in your Build.PL/Makefile.PL/META.yml. > > > > Yes, but the question is whether such old versions of XML-Writer can still be > found in the wild.
Yes. You'd be surprised by some of the setups I've seen. > Furthermore, a user installing my module from CPAN will > normally install the latest version of XML-Writer, Not if there is a pre-installed version of XML-Writer. As your distribution doesn't require a specific minimum version, it will go with whatever is installed. > So I'd rather not get such failure reports, just because > someone is trying to build unrealistic situations. We've already given the answer to this. Set your pre-requisites with a minimum guaranteed working version and you won't get these failure reports. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org> Ark Appreciation Pages <http://ark.eology.org>
