>>>>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:38:30 +1100, "Adam Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
> After a number of incidents, it would appear that putting the Perl version > dependency into requires is just too problematic to be an appropriate > solution. > It also has implications from a CPAN graph perspective. > If a module has a Perl language version dependency, we can short-circuit > Makefile.PL, and we can even short-circuit configure_requires, because > there's simply no point bothering. > So I'd like to propose a perl_version: key for META.yml, which would be > specifically to identify the minimum Perl language version dependency of the > module. +1 And then the documentation must be adjusted that has the example requires: ... perl: 5.005_03 which I have always taken as a specification and others just ignore. -- andreas
