# from John Peacock
# on Saturday 03 February 2007 06:48 am:

>existing code is predicated on a minimum release, not a maximum
> release.  What I'm wondering is what shape should my code take to
> convey this behavior.

Hi John,

Can this not be specified in the 'requires' field of the prereqs?

  requires => { perl => '< 5.9.0'}

Or, do I need more coffee and a better explanation?

  eval { require 5.009_000 } and die "not needed";

>I want to avoid die'ing, since that will just cause failures to emit 
>from the CPAN smokers.  Should I just create a dummy Build which has a 
>single ok() test?

Maybe overriding find_test_files and find_pm_files?

--Eric
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