I recently released Date::Manip 6.xx which requires perl 5.10 (Date::Manip 5.xx works fine on perl 5.6 and probably earlier versions). NOTE: I'm still supporting the 5.xx releases for users who don't have perl 5.10 .

The problem is that now the automatic installers are failing. If you try to upgrade Date::Manip and you're running perl 5.6/5.8, it'll try the newest version which will fail, and it'll report that it couldn't install Date::Manip. Of course, you can manually specify to use the newest of the 5.xx releases, and that works fine, but I'd like to fix this problem in a better way.

I'm not interested in renaming the module to Date::Manip6 (or some other variation), but I'm considering packaging both the 5.xx and 6.xx releases in the 6.xx package and then fixing the Makefile.PL/Build.PL to install the correct one based on the perl version.

Is this a valid/good/poor/unacceptable solution to the problem? Will it solve one problem only to create another? If there's a better way to solve the problem please let me know. NOTE: backing out the changes that require 5.10 isn't an option that I'm willing to consider.

I'm not 100% sure how to do it, but I'm sure it won't be hard to figure it out, but if there's already a module out there that does this, I'd be interested in a note so that I can see an example of it already being done.

Thanks

In reply to Installing a module that is perl-version specific by SBECK

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