On 10/9/21 10:25 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Why don't we specify the minimum versions required of these somewhere in
the perl code? Perl is pretty good at this.
e.g.
use IPC::Run 0.79;
use Test::More 0.87;
It will choke if the supplied version is older.
We could even put lines like this in a small script that configure could
run.
cheers
andrew
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