On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:13:19PM -0400, stevan little wrote: > On May 11, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Andy Lester wrote: > > >>One concern just popped into my head... I'd like to not have to > >>depend on very recent versions of Test::More. Can you look into > >>that and make recommendations about what version of Test::More > >>we should use as a minimum? > > This brings up a point of how backwards compatible do you (Tim) want > this all too be? I assume that DBI needs to support the widest possible > audience,
Yes. As far as practical. > but is there any official "must be supported" list that we > should know about? Perl 5.6.1 is the official minimum. I started using Test::More a few releases ago even though its not part of 5.6.1 and no one complained. > >The most "very recent" version of Test::More is from August 2002. > > I agree with this, I think the furthest back I would want to go is 0.40 > (Dec 2001), since that was when cmp_ok was added, and I use that pretty > heavily. I've added that version to PREREQ_PM in Makefile.PL Tim.