| Subject: | CPAN.pm recommends_policy < perl-5.20.1 |
Hi there,
Currently this module lists the latest Perl version as a recommended dependency. Not sure if this is due to specific issues in older versions of perl, but it doesn't play very well with the CPAN.pm 'recommends_policy' option. Using these two lines from cpan on pre-5.20.1 versions of perl will fail installation:
o conf recommends_policy 1
install Text::CSV_XS
Arguably that's a fault with CPAN.pm, and it should provide better control over that feature (ignore recommended, install if available, always install), so I'll raise that separately.
However, it might reduce confusion if that perl version line was removed? (https://github.com/Tux/Text-CSV_XS/blob/master/sandbox/genMETA.pl#L55) This would at least allow people to install without them needing to disable the recommends_policy setting. I haven't tested with other CPAN clients, so I don't know if this applies to cpanm etc.
thanks,
Tom