# from Marvin Humphrey
# on Sunday 24 January 2010 06:15:
>> hard place: old client invents Makefile.PL from thin air
>
>Probably the fact that we require Perl 5.8.3 or above spares us from
> some of those.
Only if the super-retro users know that you require 5.8.3, which they
don't unless the Makefile.PL blocks them from installing. Maybe not a
big deal, but users who don't read instructions and live in 1999 get
some really puzzling error messages.
--Eric
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"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious."
--Murphy's Second Corollary
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