Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Michael G Schwern > # on Thursday 19 July 2007 08:00 am: > >> The way MakeMaker traditionally handles a perl prerequisite is by >> sticking "require 5.xxx" at the top of the Makefile.PL. The CPAN >> tools can spot the resulting error message and take the appropriate >> action. > > Interesting. Any chance that works for module versions? That is, could > we force something like configure_requires support upon older clients?
No, the CPAN shell doesn't rerun the Makefile.PL after resolving dependencies.
