This just came. up a few days ago: How to determine what code is limiting needed perl version for a module. I installed it to play around with it and it seems to work well though I’ve only tried it on a couple of things: Perl::MinimumVersion. Here’s some output from it suggesting that I’ve likely set the version much too high in some of my own code.

perlver lib/MuhCodes.pm 
   ----------------------------------------------  
 | file            | explicit | syntax | external |
 | ---------------------------------------------- |
 | lib/MuhCodes.pm | v5.16.0  | v5.8.0 | n/a      |
 | ---------------------------------------------- |
 | Minimum explicit version : v5.16.0.            |
 | Minimum syntax version   : v5.8.0.             |
 | Minimum version of perl  : v5.16.0.            |
   ----------------------------------------------

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Update: I agree with stevieb’s advice. Leave it out unless you actually need it to block a test runner or something from trying a Perl that’s too low.

In reply to Re: Determining minimum Perl version for new module by Your Mother
in thread Determining minimum Perl version for new module by wanna_code_perl

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