On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:50:42AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: > This is why I tend to do something like this in Makefile.PL: > > print "WARNING: This new major release is incompatible with previous\n"; > print "releases. Please check any code which uses this module.\n"; > print "Press enter to continue.\n"; > <>;
Something that struck me is that your specific text doesn't name the module. Hence if this shows up somewhere in the auto-building of dependencies by the CPAN module the user is going to have to skim back somewhat to work out which module will need its README reading. It would seem that the quick change of rephrasing to add the name the module would save users' time. With this approach, how many subsequent releases of the module do you make before you drop this text? Nicholas Clark
