Re^2: recursive dependencies in 5.8.8 vs 5.10 and CPAN

What a great insight :-)

The problem for me is:

- there are evidently CPAN-modules out there with such errors
- 5.10 handles this situation differently from 5.8.8.

So the risk is (as I discovered today) that you can have a code-base depending on CPAN-modules that does not work anymore when you upgrade to 5.10.

My question was wether there is any way to mitigate this risk...

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Re^3: recursive dependencies in 5.8.8 vs 5.10 and CPAN by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 03, 2009 at 21:13 UTC
Mitigating the risk of there being a bug in module you will one day need? On the plus side, this particular bug should be easy to fix when encountered.	[reply]
Re^4: recursive dependencies in 5.8.8 vs 5.10 and CPAN by morgon (Priest) on Jul 03, 2009 at 21:37 UTC
Actually I meant is there some systematic testing of CPAN-modules against the various Perl-versions that would allow you to look up a module somewhere and learn e.g. it works with 5.8.8 but not with 5.10. With "working" I mean passing the modules's test-suite or for modules that don't come with a test-suite passing a simple "use_ok" test-case.	[reply]
Re^5: recursive dependencies in 5.8.8 vs 5.10 and CPAN by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 03, 2009 at 21:41 UTC
The CPAN Testers for Parse::Lex list at this time many many more fails than successes.	[reply]