Re^3: Careful with Test::Pod::Coverage. And with Test::More

If only life were that simple. Automatic installation of dependancies didn't get added to CPAN until early in 1999. 5.005 came out in mid-1998. Therefore, although modern CPAN can automatically install dependancies, old perl installs don't necessarily take advantage of it because their installed versions of CPAN may be too old.

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Re^4: Careful with Test::Pod::Coverage. And with Test::More by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 15, 2005 at 01:27 UTC
I wonder whether someone running software that old would even be interested in automatic dependency resolution. I figure if they’ve not upgraded in such a long time, it must be because stability is so important to them that they are quite willing to endure the pain of installing complex software by hand – along with all the other tradeoffs that come with running nearly decade-old software. In other words, I’ll make a token effort to not make deployment on such systems gratuitously difficult, but I also don’t see why I should make my own software development gratuitously difficult. There is a balance to be struck; abstaining from all progress is not it. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]

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Re^4: Careful with Test::Pod::Coverage. And with Test::More
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 15, 2005 at 01:27 UTC

I wonder whether someone running software that old would even be interested in automatic dependency resolution. I figure if they’ve not upgraded in such a long time, it must be because stability is so important to them that they are quite willing to endure the pain of installing complex software by hand – along with all the other tradeoffs that come with running nearly decade-old software.

In other words, I’ll make a token effort to not make deployment on such systems gratuitously difficult, but I also don’t see why I should make my own software development gratuitously difficult. There is a balance to be struck; abstaining from all progress is not it.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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