I should note that this situation won't last. Now that configure_requires is starting to be used, and M:B is setting configure_requires to itself, authors with the the most recent M:B will start driving more aggressive end-user upgrades to the latest version.
This is the intended effect, but makes prod releases more sensitive to bad releases. Adam K 2009/1/13 Adam Kennedy <[email protected]>: > 2009/1/13 Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]>: >> And nobody noticed it or mentioned it for 3 months (let alone the set of >> two alphas starting over a month ago.) > > The main reason that nobody noticed it is that the majority doing CPAN > installs is using Strawberry, and that updates to the latest version > of everything every quarterly release. > > So most people have 0.30 which generally won't need updating, which > means these things don't get yelled about. > > Adam K >
