It would be so much more convenient if the auto tools like cpanp and cpanm would take module versions into consideration and didn't jump from 1.x to 2.0 for example, instead following the current 1.x branch until the user makes a conscientious decision to upgrade.

Well, hah :)

See https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Meta::Spec#prereqs for the bare-bone-ness

See Task for advanced bones

All you need, to get cpan/cpanm not to jump from 1.x to 2.x is add checks in all the related Makefile.PL equivalents, that does  die "ABORTING; WILL NOT FORCE UPGRADE TO 2X VERSION WITHOUT Task::Foo2X\n" if not require Task::Foo2x;

Then Task::Foo2x does explicitly install  DWALIN/Foo-2.0.1.tar.gz and all the stuff

Then you get everything you want, but naturally you have to update the 1.x version to have this enhanced Makefile.PL equivalents

In reply to Re^3: Controlled CPAN breakage by Anonymous Monk
in thread Controlled CPAN distribution breakage by dwalin

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