On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:48:35AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote: > > In general, I'm against pushing that check into the testing framework - > > there are occasional situations where you can find yourself using truly > > ancient versions of perl and tools, and I would prefer to have requirements > > explicitly declared where I can check them than implicitly assumed. > I do think that CPAN Testers should generally run a relatively modern > toolchain, including CPAN clients. Testing whether something can pass > tests on a bog-standard ancient Perl is not really useful data for > maintainers because for a long, long time, the answer to "I can't > install" is "upgrade your toolchain".
It is, however, useful for people wanting to use modules. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for you.
