Re: addressing kwalitee and other quality issues at the head of the CPAN River

On 29 January 2016 at 13:01, Neil Bowers <[email protected]> wrote:
> adding min perl version


I'd be particularly careful with that one. People who don't know what
they're doing are predisposed to set a bar at a premature location.

For instance, if somebody has a motto of /attempting/ 5.6 support but
doesn't guarantee one, a dist may /appear/ to have a higher minimum
version until one of its dependencies is likewise made 5.6 friendly.

Minimum requirements should be statements of fact and be the lowest of
bars that are viable, not a conjectural "this is probably needed", for
conjectural things, recommends and suggests are better, ( but putting
perl itself in either of those fields is kinda nonsense, because no
CPAN Toolchain can/will transparently upgrade your perl )


-- 
Kent

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