Re: An Inline question, and a user's experience: Fwd: Using Inline::CPP and Math::Primes::FastSieve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Oswald"

> Next: Dana identified that Inline will not install on Perl version
> 5.8.0 or earlier.

This is not quite correct.
Digest::MD5 is core by the time 5.8.0 arrives. Later versions of Digest::MD5 
might be unbuildable on 5.8.0 but that doesn't matter, because the version 
of Digest::MD5 that ships with the 5.8.0 sources is fine for the purposes of 
Inline.
Digest::MD5 was not core for 5.6, however. So there may be a problem there 
in that one cannot install the most recent version of Digest::MD5, and has 
to settle for an older version. My perl-5.6 has Digest-MD5-2.16, which is 
fine for Inline.

Is there a way for a Makefile.PL to specify a *maximum* version for a 
dependency ?
Currently the Inline Makefile.PL simply specifies a minimum version of 2.09.

I guess it wouldn't hurt if the Inline Makefile.PL displayed a warning about 
this whenever it gets run on perl-5.6.
Maybe this should also be mentioned in the docs.

Cheers,
Rob