# from Nicholas Clark
# on Wednesday 10 September 2008 08:25:
>> Problem is, the shebang line doesn???t actually *do* anything.
>>
>> The correct solution (which also doesn???t require changes to
>> CPANTS) is called warnings::compat. Assuming you actually care
>> that much???
>
>I don't agree. I'm with Paul. Why should I add a dependency to correct
>code to placate the CPANTS game? Particularly as warnings::compat
> *can't* do everything the warnings pragma can do, so by changing to
> use it I might be adding bugs.
# from David Golden on Wednesday 10 September 2008 07:08:
>Assuming I don't mind adding a dependency that is only needed for perl
>< 5.6. Or customizing my *.PL to only add the dependency on perl <
>5.6. All for a version of Perl I no longer care about since Schwern
>declared it dead.
Yes. Please let's not start cutting the ends off of the ham just so we
can get mom's old pan out of the attic. I don't particularly want to
have to explain to anyone why some .pm files have a shebang line
several years from now.
If CPANTS can find the -w in the tests or whatever and the META.yml says
5.6... (Because enabling warnings in *everyone else's* code is a good
way to placate a static kwalitee scanner?) I give up.
And if warnings::compat actually works on 5.6, why not just call it
warnings.pm when you install it there?
Thanks,
Eric
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