'use 5.006' is a 5.6 specific expression. You need to say 'require 5.006'

David


On 10/11/07, Michael Bombardieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey there CPAN testers,
>
> Just wanted to say thanks for testing some of my code. I've been
> testing the Crypt::Elijah module myself on i386 (Linux, MSWin32,
> cygwin) and powerpc (OpenBSD). I'm really glad to see the following
> results for Crypt-Elijah 0.08:
>
> PASS  681138 5.9.5 on Netbsd 2.1.0_stable (alpha-netbsd)
> PASS  681102 5.9.5 on Solaris 2.9 (sun4-solaris)
>
> I don't have access to sparc or alpha hardware so seeing this makes me
> all warm and tingly inside. Anyway, I have a question about the
> following CPAN test result:
>
> NA  680959 5.5.5 on Freebsd 6.2-release (amd64-freebsd)
>
> The test fails because the module "requires" Perl 5.6.0 and the Perl
> in question is 5.5.5. My code runs fine on Perl 5.004_02, but I chose
> to require version 5.6.0 because I'd seen similar in other CPAN
> modules. Would you recommend that I change the version requirement in
> my module to an older version of Perl? Would you recommend that I
> remove this requirement altogether? I'm new to CPAN so forgive me if
> this question is trivial. I just want to know if there's a good reason
> for me to scrap my "use 5.006" line and let God sort them out.
>
> Thanks for your help, and keep up the good work.
>
> Michael
>
>

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