Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
Module::Build already has it's own way to tell about dependencies but afaik no one uses it except CPANPLUS.
And what is worse is that the Module::Build dependencies are treated as /suggestions/, and will not throw an error if one is not met. I just got a cpantester's report for one of my modules which only works with Perl 5.8.1 or better. Even though I added 'perl => 5.8.1' to the dependencies, Module::Build happily went on to try and build/test the module on a 5.6.1 machine. I actually have to add 'use 5.8.1' to the top of the Build.PL file to correctly bail out.
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John
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