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  • Those two things have been the cause for a bunch of my modules recently. I don't bother trying to make anything work with 5.005 any more, so that's one problem. I've also gotten a rash of weird failures from testers where the failure was clearly a problem of their build environment. It'd be cool if testers could delete failure reports some how.
    • If your module was tested on 5.005, it's only because your Makefile.PL said (by omission) that it was compatible with 5.005.

      If your module DOESN'T support 5.005, then you should be reporting that.

      Then CPAN Testers won't test the module, and you won't accumulate FAIL reports.
      • A little bit of handholding would be much appreciated...

        Can you tell exactly what line we would need to add in Makefile.PL to achieve this?

        • Can you tell exactly what line we would need to add in Makefile.PL to achieve this?

          Just include use 5.006; and the toolchain will understand the distribution is not for pre-5.6 perls. Someone has said that this use was a 5.6 thing, but I've seen it work ok with 5.5. I don't know if even older perls would understand it as well or if they would need a more barroque thing like:

          BEGIN { require 5.006; }

          • If a dependency of a module is declared within the dependency to be incompatible with the perl version installing the module, does the installer get a warning during the typical "perl Makefile.pl; make; make test; make install"?
            • As far as I know, the installer will try to get away without the successful installation of the dependency, hoping for the best. If the best doesn't happen, the failed test will appear as UNKNOWN in that case. So it correctly won't add it to the row of FAILed tests.
          • Actually, I also thought that "use 5.xxx" is a new thing, but it works at least with 5.004, maybe also with older perl versions. And there are for sure no testers around who use something older than 5.005.
          • Thanks, a Google search [google.com] reveals that use VERSION; is indeed quite common in Makefile.PL files on CPAN.

            I wasn't sure it was the right way to do it.
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