David Golden wrote: > On 7/19/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The way MakeMaker traditionally handles a perl prerequisite is by >> sticking >> "require 5.xxx" at the top of the Makefile.PL. The CPAN tools can >> spot the >> resulting error message and take the appropriate action. > > Is this documented anywhere? > > Or is this the kind of tacit knowledge like dying with "OS > Unsupported" to signal to CPAN Testers tools that an OS isn't > supported? > > "Tradition" and error string parsing seems a rather brittle approach.
Yeah, well, that's what we've got. Its written down on the CPAN testers wiki and I also confirmed it with Barbie at YAPC. "Making distributions CPAN Testers friendly" http://cpantest.grango.org/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?act=wiki-page&pagename=CPANAuthorNotes The information there was wrong, it recommended using perl in PREREQ_PM which won't work. I fixed it.
