Re: How to declare a dependency on PerlIO in a CPAN module?

perl => 5.008

Tied handles not require PerlIO.

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Re^2: How to declare a dependency on PerlIO in a CPAN module? by jcb (Parson) on Sep 01, 2019 at 02:11 UTC
Actually, I am setting `MIN_PERL_VERSION => '5.8.1'` because of some documentation warning about bugs in tied filehandle support in 5.8.0. That tied handles are separate machinery in perl is nice to know, and solves an open question (whether to handle decoding transfer-encodings on WARC payloads in tied handle handlers or to use `PerlIO::via`) that I had. I try to follow the general principle of "graceful degradation" so I will try to minimize my dependencies on PerlIO. Thanks for the detail.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How to declare a dependency on PerlIO in a CPAN module? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 01, 2019 at 09:12 UTC
I wouldn't fret about a dependency on PerlIO. 5.8.1 is the minimum supported by most distros. Anything before that didn't support Unicode, for starters.	[reply]