Re: [RFC] perl prerequiste

Alexandr Ciornii wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Makefile.PL/ExtUtils::MakeMaker has no way to specify required perl
> version except "use 5.006;".
> I propose to make possible to specify perl version same way as in Build.PL.
> Ex.:
> 'PREREQ_PM'     => {
>    perl => 5.006,
> },

Thanks for the idea.  It's been proposed before...
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28374

I'm fine with the idea as long as it's not adding to PREREQ_PM.  I'm not a fan
of adding extra special meanings to things.  PREREQ_PM is the prerequisite
perl modules and that's it.  It'll need a new key.  PREREQ_PERL is one idea.
So is MIN_PERL_VERSION.  I don't really have a strong preference one way or
the other.

There's a patch in that ticket, it never got finished.  You might want to work
off of that.


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