Re: What's your preferred 'use VERSION' for new CPAN modules in 2023?

No "new" CPAN modules in the works at the moment, but Net::Clacks already uses 5.36 due to the switch to subsigs.

A lot of my internal ("DarkPAN") code also already switched to 5.36 (planning for 5.38 soon). It's a lot easier for development in a small team if you can set just a single Perl version your software has to be compatible with. Generally, i support Perl current-stable and previous-stable, similar to p5p. When subsigs came out of experimental, this was huge enough to switch basically immediately and rework my huge code base to use subsigs.

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Re^2: What's your preferred 'use VERSION' for new CPAN modules in 2023? by kcott (Archbishop) on Dec 05, 2023 at 09:49 UTC
G'day cavac, "... Net::Clacks already uses 5.36 ..." Might I suggest that the documentation for this module clearly states that. Also consider adding MIN_PERL_VERSION to the `Makefile.PL`. I believe that will ensure '`make`' fails and a subsequent '`make test`' will not be attempted — see the only current Cygwin "Report for Net-Clacks-27" for an example of multiple tests failing with "`Error: Perl v5.36.0 required...`". More driven by a love of Discworld `😍` than any particular need for this module, I attempted to install it using four different Perl versions. When "CPAN Testers Matrix: Net-Clacks 27" is next updated, you should see three green (PASS) and one orangey (NA) swatches, in the Cygwin column, for versions `v5.39.3`, `v5.38.0`, `v5.36.0` and `v5.34.0`, respectively. — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: What's your preferred 'use VERSION' for new CPAN modules in 2023? by cavac (Prior) on Dec 05, 2023 at 11:08 UTC
Thanks, will do! Now i have another reason to release a new version. Guess that's another excuse down the drain not to do any open source work over the holidays ;-) PerlMonks XP is useless? Not anymore: XPD - Do more with your PerlMonks XP	[reply]