Re: Q: How to specify a minimum version of Perl

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Ron Savage <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my Build.PL I have:
>  requires =>
>  {
>         Carp            => 0,
>         perl            => '5.005_62',
>         XML::Parser     => 0,
>         XML::Records    => 0,
>         XML::TokeParser => 0,
>  },
> which appears to work, but I only have V 5.10.0 installed.
> So the first question is: Is that correct?

Yes.

> Then, in my Makefile.PL I have:
>  NAME      => 'DBIx::Admin::BackupRestore',

> So the second question is, what's the Makefile.PL equivalent of:
>  perl            => '5.005_62',

    require 5.005_62; # at the top of Makefile.PL

I believe that M::B::Compat in 0.2808_01 will do this for you if you
are having M::B generate your Makefile.PL.

David