| Subject: | Deprecation notes leave version confusion around Net::SMTP |
The deprecation notes state that native SSL/STARTLS support have been available since Net::SMTP 1.28, however, Net::SMTP never existed with a version lower than 2.0
https://metacpan.org/pod/release/GBARR/libnet-1.00/Net/SMTP.pm
This is of course due to the discrepancy between the version stated on the libnet distribution and on Net::SMTP itself.
Perhaps its intended that it means libnet-1.28 , which was released around the date stated in the deprecation notice.
But this would mean the appropriate notice would be:
"Since Net::SMTP 2.35 ( libnet 1.28 @ 2014-10-08 )"
Or similar.
https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/libnet-1.28/lib/Net/SMTP.pm#L23
The difference is demonstrable here:
cpanm --look --dev 'Net::SMTP@1.28'
! Finding Net::SMTP (== 1.28) on cpanmetadb failed.
Found Net::SMTP 3.11 which doesn't satisfy == 1.28.
cpanm --look --dev 'Net::SMTP@2.35'
--> Working on Net::SMTP
Fetching http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHAY/libnet-1.28.tar.gz ... OK
Entering /home/kent/.cpanm/work/1512906359.15340/libnet-1.28 with /bin/bash
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