Actually, for those of us who support 'deep' backwards compatibility for their modules, Test::More itself is problematic. If you blindly 'use' it, you can break 5.005 compatibility for people running very old installations that lack Test::More.

Since I wasn't specifically aware of the 'misversioned dependancy' problem with Test::Pod::Coverage, I have not yet written defensive code for it. I have written defensive code for Test::More (example taken from my Class::NamedParms module): 

use strict;

use lib  ('./blib','../blib', './lib', '../lib');

eval {
    require Test::More;
};
if ($@) {
    $|++;
    print "1..0 # Skipped: Test::More required for testing POD coverag
+e\n";
    exit;
}
eval {
    require Test::Pod::Coverage;
};
if ($@ or (not defined $Test::Pod::Coverage::VERSION) or ($Test::Pod::
+Coverage::VERSION < 1.06)) {
    Test::More::plan (skip_all => "Test::Pod::Coverage 1.06 required f
+or testing POD coverage");
    exit;
}

Test::More::plan (tests => 1);
Test::Pod::Coverage::pod_coverage_ok( 'Class::NamedParms', { also_priv
+ate => ['DEBUG'] });

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In reply to Re: Careful with Test::Pod::Coverage. And with Test::More by snowhare
in thread Careful with Test::Pod::Coverage by xdg

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