Re^2: How to tell what version of Perl a script needs?

And that line doesn't say "I only work with version X of above", it says "I refuse myself to work with anything less than version X".

You see lots and lots of people starting scripts/modules with require 5.006 (or other) without even knowing what they're going to use.

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Re^3: How to tell what version of Perl a script needs? by moot (Chaplain) on Apr 20, 2005 at 05:16 UTC
Surely a lot of the blame for that lies with h2xs, which casually inserts the current version of perl at the top of any created .pm files. Although admittedly the final responsibility for changing this lies with the author, I think too many people (myself included? never!) just think "isn't everyone running perl 5.020?", and leave it the way it is - any dependencies obviously work with that version, and to figure out the absolute minimum is Just Too Much Work.	[reply]

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Re^3: How to tell what version of Perl a script needs?
by moot (Chaplain) on Apr 20, 2005 at 05:16 UTC

Surely a lot of the blame for that lies with h2xs, which casually inserts the current version of perl at the top of any created .pm files. Although admittedly the final responsibility for changing this lies with the author, I think too many people (myself included? never!) just think "isn't everyone running perl 5.020?", and leave it the way it is - any dependencies obviously work with that version, and to figure out the absolute minimum is Just Too Much Work.

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