# from David Golden # on Saturday 27 October 2007 12:24: >2) CPAN Testers documentation and wiki should encourage module authors >to put "use 5.006" or whatever minimum perl version they need at the >top of their Build.PL, just as with Makefile.PL. This ensures that a >perl version requirement will be respected on any legacy version of >Module::Build and that failure will be detected by CPAN::Reporter as >an "NA" grade.
I think we should take this as an opportunity to consider how many redundancies are "suggested" for Build.PL "for the sake of compatibility." http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2007/09/msg902.html The publishing author is (hopefully) using an up-to-date Module::Build. The version on the installation machine doesn't matter quite so much. I would rather just assume proper configure_requires support, but yeah -- that's not going to be universal for five years or something, right? (Barring an aggressively self-updating cpan client and a scheduled breakage of the index files forcing an update to said self-updating client.) --Eric -- Hot dogs: just another condiment. --Heart-attack Man --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
