Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 at 19:37, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: >> As an affected committer, I want to push back against having such >> a requirement, because I don't think it is reasonable to require >> everybody to have precisely version XYZ of perltidy installed. >> If that's not the version provided by their platform-of-choice, >> it's an annoying hurdle. > > That's why I tried to make that hurdle as small as possible. All > that's needed with the current patchset is: > > wget > https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20230309.tar.gz > cpanm -l $HOME/perltidy-20230309 Perl-Tidy-20230309.tar.gz
You can ask cpanm to install a specific version without having to download the tarball manually or knowing who made the release and which archive format they used: cpanm -l $HOME/perltidy-20230309 Perl::Tidy@20230309 - ilmari
