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Patch for Pod::WSDL 0.03

jonasbn on 2005-12-08T22:30:02

This module specifies a requirement for Perl 5.8.5 in its Makefile.PL - this is just plain silly since the module installs and works on Perl 5.6.1 (after removing the requirement of course), so I have reported a bug and submitted a patch to deal with this.

crazy! :)

h2xs

Dom2 on 2005-12-09T08:02:50

I blame h2xs myself, for inserting the minimum version required into its default template. It's a very bad idea.

-Dom

Re:h2xs

barbie on 2005-12-09T10:21:03

Unfortunately it's not just h2xs. Last time I trialed Module::Starter and ExtUtils::ModuleMaker they did it too. They both may have changed since then, but anyone who hasn't upgraded will still experience this.

If anyone thinks they should include a specific version of Perl, then they should be running Perl::MinimumVersion first to verify.

I've lost count of the number of emails and bug reports I've sent to authors who don't realise that this gets set by default. If I started submitting reports again, a significant portion of CPAN would be marked NA for 5.6.1. As I've mentioned previously, Catalyst is a notable culprit at the moment, even though, as Adam highlighted, it can as easily require Perl 5.6.0.