Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

[Cosimo Streppone]

On Tue, 24 May 2011 07:22:02 +1000, David E. Wheeler  
<da...@kineticode.com> wrote:

On May 20, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote:
[1] I think a lot of this trouble would go away if the CPAN tool chain  
simply permitted authors to express precisely which $VERSION of  
something they require.

Hi David,

You can.

  
http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Meta-2.110930/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm#Version_Ranges

Whaaat!? :-)

Let's see if I understand this correctly.
If, as an example, in this file,

    http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/COSIMO/Net-Prober-0.03/META.json

I say:

   "prereqs" : {
      ...
      "runtime" : {
         "requires" : {
            "Net::Ping" : "<= 2.35"
         }
      },
      ...
   },

Where current Net::Ping on CPAN is 2.36,
than this will install Net::Ping 2.35 as
prerequisite?

Or, if Net::Ping on the system is already 2.36
it will refuse to proceed?

I have tried fiddling with Makefile.PL/META.yml/META.json
without success.

--
Cosimo