On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Autrijus Tang wrote: [ ... ] > Since the only distribution that contains the module has a > underscore in its version string, it's considered > "experimental" release and not included in the module list, > rendering it unavailable to CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS users. > > Until this convention is changed, IMHO it should be wise to > use only non-experimental versions of modules in the > PREREQ_PM list.
That's an interesting quandry ... Circumstances certainly arise when one could require experimental versions of other modules. If Matt doesn't put this in a PREREQ_PM, he gets a FAIL from cpansmoke because of a lack of a PREREQ_PM, and if he does put in a PREREQ_PM, it can't be followed by CPAN/CPANPLUS because it's considered an experimental module, and so cpansmoke still reports a FAIL. best regards, randy
