There should probably be a way to require a minimum version of the compiler.
use rakudo v2019.07;
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 3:14 AM MT <mt195...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In the light of renaming to Raku I was wondering if the statement 'use
> v6.*' is still useful.
>
> First there is no version 6 of Raku (should be version 0, but that's
> another story) and the 'use v5' in the past used for perl5 is also not
> used anymore (I think) (it is, I believe, more common to 'use
> Inline::Perl5').
>
> Also the 'd' of the Diwali version is a nice touch but my experience is
> that this is not accurate enough. I've used some new things of Raku
> introduced somewhere in summer 2019 but the version is still 6d. Also
> many bugs are fixed which requires newer versions to run right.
>
> So I must warn potential users of the software to install the newest
> Raku version, otherwise the programs/modules will run into problems.
>
> It would be nice to have this version extended, or maybe better, the
> version spec in META6.json so that the zef module installer could hold
> back the installation if the users Raku version is older. It is not
> enough to let tests fail on something the Raku compiler cannot handle
> because it is does not show that the compiler is too old when zef is
> installing modules.
>
> Regards
> Marcel
>
