On 7/10/2011 7:24 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 21:41:44 +0100
Barbie<bar...@missbarbell.co.uk> wrote:
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. Furthermore, a user installing my module from CPAN will
normally install the latest version of XML-Writer, with which my module can work
perfectly fine. So I'd rather not get such failure reports, just because
someone is trying to build unrealistic situations.
In order to avoid destabilizing my perl environment,
I generally avoid updating an already installed perl
module unless it is specifically required---for
example by a module with a minimum version required
dependency. Otherwise, it can result in a cascade
of upgrades and much breakage since the new versions
are not quite the same as the original (e.g., new API)
and not all the needed dependent modules get updated
correctly. By including a minimum required version
the module author can help a lot since upgrades will
be correctly announced/forced if needed.
Regards,
Chris
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:02:36PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 13:01:23 +0300
From: Shlomi Fish<shlo...@shlomifish.org>
To: Jeroen Latour<t...@jeroen.la>
Subject: Re: Using an old XML-Writer here:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/c9bc7d3b-6bf9-1014-adbd-077e73fdb553
Hi Jeroen,
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:21:52 +0200
Jeroen Latour<t...@jeroen.la> wrote:
Hi Shlomi,
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. So please either stop doing that altogether
or alternatively black list all of my (= SHLOMIF's) distributions from this
kind of testing.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Regards,
Jeroen
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Shlomi Fish<shlo...@shlomifish.org>
wrote:
Hi Jeroen,
Regarding:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/c9bc7d3b-6bf9-1014-adbd-077e73fdb553
I don't understand why you are testing using XML-Writer-0.531
when there's already XML-Writer-0.612 :
http://beta.metacpan.org/release/XML-Writer
So this is likely a false report.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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