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This module specifies a requirement for Perl 5.8.5 in its Makefile.PL - this is just plain silly since the module installs and works on Perl 5.6.1 (after removing the requirement of course), so I have reported a bug and submitted a patch to deal with this.
crazy!
h2xs (Score:2)
-Dom
Re:h2xs (Score:2)
Unfortunately it's not just h2xs. Last time I trialed Module::Starter [cpan.org] and ExtUtils::ModuleMaker [cpan.org] they did it too. They both may have changed since then, but anyone who hasn't upgraded will still experience this.
If anyone thinks they should include a specific version of Perl, then they should be running Perl::MinimumVersion [cpan.org] first to verify.
I've lost count of the number of emails and bug reports I've sent to authors who don't realise that this gets set by default. If I started submitting reports again, a si