Re^2: Checking if your CPAN distributions need to bump their prereq versions (no!)


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Re^2: Checking if your CPAN distributions need to bump their prereq versions (no!)

by Tux (Canon)

on Jun 29, 2017 at 07:16 UTC ( [id://1193805]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in thread Checking if your CPAN distributions need to bump their prereq versions

In fact you should do BOTH! State the minimum required and state the recommended version. The latter should have been thoroughly tested.

Having a lowest supported and a recommended might have a lot of added value to a module. Say that the newest/hippest module adds a feature that can speed up you code by a factor 10, it is worth supporting that with a fallback to the old code if the newest feature is not available.

You META.yml might then have a section similar to:

requires:
    perl:                5.008001
    DBI:                 1.628
    DBD::File:           0.42
    SQL::Statement:      1.405
    Text::CSV_XS:        1.01
recommends:
    DBI:                 1.636
    DBD::File:           0.44
    SQL::Statement:      1.412
    Text::CSV_XS:        1.31
configure_requires:
    ExtUtils::MakeMaker: 0
    DBI:                 1.628
build_requires:
    Config:              0
test_requires:
    Test::Harness:       0
    Test::More:          0.90
    Encode:              0
    Cwd:                 0
    charnames:           0
test_recommends:
    Test::More:          1.302085
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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn