On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:03:27AM -0600, Ken Williams wrote: > Well, some modules are core in 5.8 but not in 5.6, etc., so this > wouldn't reflect reality on many systems. How about we change that to > something like: > > core: 5.6.0 > > Which indicates at what perl version *some* version of this module went > into the core. > > So, a module like Dumpvalue.pm, which is core in 5.6 but not in 5.005, > could be installed into 'site' dirs for 5.005, and 'perl' for 5.6.
This makes sense. MakeMaker can't [1] do it because it doesn't have that information, but Module::Build can. [1] It could be added but its not worth the effort.
