On 08/08/2021 20:34, Diab Jerius wrote:
Here's the problem, illustrated by this CPAN testers failure:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/2f961e48-6bf6-1014-90df-a468c69b7236
The smoker has versions of Cpanel::JSON::XS and YAML::XS which are older
than my required versions. Since the ::XS versions are prioritized over
the ::PP versions, the code uses those and thus fails the tests. I
presume that because the ::XS versions are recommendations rather than
requirements, they weren't updated to the versions that the code requires.
Is there some way of triggering an update to the required versions via
the metadata, or should I put a runtime version check into the tests and
skip if the appropriate versions aren't installed?
You can check what's already installed in your Makefile.PL or
equivalent, and prompt the user if you can't figure out what to do
automatically. I ASSume that the correct thing to do would be to do as
you currently do if none of your deps are installed, but if any are
installed you'd want to tell EU::MM's WriteMakefile function that you
have a runtime requirement for updated versions.
Use the prompt() function from ExtUtils::MakeMaker as that will pay
attention to the PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT env var. You may also want to pay
attention to AUTOMATED_TESTING and NONINTERACTIVE_TESTING. In particular
you will find that CPAN-testers generally set all three of those.
Vary as appropriate if you use a different build system.
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David Cantrell
