fglock has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've got a bug report from cpan-testers, because my module was tested using an old version of another module.

Makefile.PL says:

...
    'PREREQ_PM' => { 'Set::Infinite' => '0.43',
...

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but the tester used an older version: 

t/api2.......Argument "19970902T090000Z" isn't numeric in numeric eq (
+==) at
/net/sunu991/disc1/.cpanplus/5.8.0/build/Set-Infinite-0.41/blib/lib/Se
+t/Infinite/_Simple.pm
line 348.

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How can I be sure that the tester will use the newer version (0.43) instead of the old one (0.41) ?

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Re: Requiring a module version in "cpan-testers"
by jand (Friar) on Mar 17, 2003 at 00:29 UTC
    In your module write 
        use Set::Infinite 0.43;

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    instead of just 
        use Set::Infinite;

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    That way the tester will get the error message: 
        Set::Infinite version 0.43 required--this is only version 0.41 at 
+-e line 1.

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    That might give the tester enough hints to update the prerequisite before submitting the bug report. On the other hand, I think the tester must have already ignored the warning from MakeMaker, so it is questionable if this would help. But I think it is more likely that the actual test failure would be read than the MakeMaker output.
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