On 7/5/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "I feel your pain and I will share it". How far each author goes down > the backwards compatibility route is obviously up to them, and as a > volunteer effort no one has any right to get upset about their decision.
Wasn't one of the goals of CPANPLUS to maintain, automatedly, a version compatibility matrix, so CPANPLUS would not clobber a working module with a newer version that would break the installed base perl? Or was that just a dream.