Hi monkses. What's the best way to put the minimum Perl version number required by a module into the Makefile.PL? For Module::Build I can simply add the version number to the "requires" hash reference, but the equivalent for ExtUtils::MakeMaker (PREREQ_PM) doesn't seem to have that option. Should I simply specify use 5.00x; at the top of the Makefile.PL?

The reason I'm asking is that I don't want the automatic CPAN testers to download and test my module if they've got a lower version of Perl installed than is required. I'm hoping that putting the minimum version somewhere into the build process will prevent this.

Update: seems the correct solution is indeed to add a use 5.00x; to the Makefile.PL. Thank you for your help (useful link that, ferreira!)

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