On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 04:34:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Hah ... your backpan link led me to realize the actual problem with > Test::More. It got folded into Test::Simple at some point, and > evidently cpanm isn't smart enough to handle a request for a back > version in such cases. But this works: > > $ cpanm install Test::Simple@0.87_01 > ... > $ perl -MTest::More -e 'print $Test::More::VERSION, "\n";' > 0.8701 > > So we oughta recommend that instead. Now I'm wondering what > version of IPC::Run to recommend.
You mentioned prairiedog uses IPC::Run 0.79. That's from 2005. (Perl 5.8.3 is from 2004, and Test::More 0.87 is from 2009.) I'd just use 0.79 in the README recipe. IPC::Run is easy to upgrade, so if we find cause to rely on a newer version, I'd be fine updating that requirement.
