On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:39:55 -0700
Serguei Trouchelle <s...@cpan.org> wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >> I'm testing with an old XML-Writer, because your module does not provide a
> >> minimum version. Apparantly your module does not work with all versions of
> >> XML-Writer.
> >> My smoker tries to create scenarios in which older versions of the module
> >> are already installed. So this shows that if someone with this version of
> >> XML-Writer installed tries to install your module, CPAN/CPANPLUS won't
> >> upgrade XML-Writer.
>
> > Please stop doing that. I'm not interested in such "terminal-case" reports,
> > which may be very unrealistic.
>
> In real world, they are very REALISTIC. People don't update modules in
> production just because they can. Only when they must.
>
Well, the question is how old is old. If you test a very old version which
isn't in production anywhere then you just sending me junk reports.
> > So please either stop doing that altogether or
> > alternatively black list all of my (= SHLOMIF's) distributions from this
> > kind of testing.
>
> Why don't you just specify a minimum supported version of XML::Writer in
> Build.PL? It's much easier and definitely more correct than anything else.
>
Because I don't know how much this is realistic. I don't know what is the
oldest version of XML::Writer that my module is still supposed to work with and
I don't wish to investigate. If the failure is in the real world, then I will
be getting a valid report, but otherwise I can assume that XML::Writer is in a
recent enough version for my module to work with.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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