[Module-build-general] Re: Module::Build and crufty perl

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 04:47  AM, Randy J. Ray wrote:

> I've been testing some of my modules against 5.00503 lately, and since  
> I've been looking at porting to Module::Build, I just tried to install  
> it under that version. It uses some things that aren't valid in  
> 5.00503, such as:
>
> 	$self->$method; # Needs explicit () between $method and ;
>
> 	open($fh, ...)  # Where $fh is undef. This is why I was testing  
> 5.00503
>
> You may not want to keep compatibility that far back (I wouldn't, but  
> I've had requests for help from more than one person). If not, you  
> might consider setting a Perl baseline with "require 5.6.0" or  
> something.
>
> Randy
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Hi Randy,

To preserve my sanity, and because I wanted to use some 5.006 features,  
I did explicitly set a prerequisite of 5.6 (see the "perl => '5.6.0',"  
in the Build.PL file).  I could be convinced to backport it, or rather  
to accept a backporting patch, but I'd definitely need to keep things  
like qr{}, so I couldn't really go back any further than 5.005_03.

That said, I can certainly change the $self->$method thing, I'm a  
little surprised I left out the parens there.

The undef $fh thing is a little more of a pain, but if that's the only  
obstacle left I suppose I could change it too.

I suppose I should also put a BEGIN{require 5.006} in too - I'm trying  
to remember why I didn't do that, and I can't remember, so I guess I'll  
do it. ;-)

Now that I think of it, my original goal was to make M::B work with  
just the *modules* that are in the 5.6.0 core (which is still the case  
for the "required" modules, but some non-core modules are  
"recommended"), not necessarily to force people to have 5.6 as a  
prereq.  Either way, I'm interested in knowing how far away 5.005_03  
support would be.

Thanks for checking into this.

  -Ken