Re: automatic configure_requires

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Eric Wilhelm<[email protected]> wrote:
> For a less-fiddly automatic setting of configure_requires, we might want
> to have a table of named features mapped to version numbers.  But I
> would still use alpha numbers in that table - just warn the user during
> ACTION_dist() if their required feature is in alpha (implied by being a
> bigger number than the last major release extracted from the current
> $VERSION.)  Maybe some pod with '=item' entries under each =head2
> $VERSION section could be cooked into a .pm at build time.

I thought about this, but I worry about maintenance/upkeep.  I think
X.YY is simple and will DTRT for > 95% of users.

David