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Id: 42857
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: MIME-tools
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Requestors: ANDK [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 5.427
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  Wed Jan 28 06:37:38 2009 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: please provide a comment on PREREQ_PM version dependencies
(severity: wishlist, low, low, low priority) Yesterday I went through MIME-tools releases to find out how the File::Temp prerequisite developed. Why? Because current release requires File::Temp 0.18. I cannot easily install that because I'm in a bondage&discipline installation that has perl 5.8.8 and that came with File::Temp 0.16. In such a situation it would help a lot to find a comment in the Makefile.PL why the critical prerequisite version was increased. Please consider to keep required prereq versions low and to provide a comment when it is unavoidable. Thank you very much for the consideration:) Regards,
  Wed Jan 28 08:49:20 2009 dmo [...] dmo.ca - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #42857] please provide a comment on PREREQ_PM version dependencies
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:46:25 -0500
To: Andreas Koenig via RT <bug-MIME-tools [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Dave O'Neill" <dmo [...] dmo.ca>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 06:37:39AM -0500, Andreas Koenig via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> Yesterday I went through MIME-tools releases to find out how the > File::Temp prerequisite developed. Why? Because current release requires > File::Temp 0.18. I cannot easily install that because I'm in a > bondage&discipline installation that has perl 5.8.8 and that came with > File::Temp 0.16. > > In such a situation it would help a lot to find a comment in the > Makefile.PL why the critical prerequisite version was increased.
Actually, the appropriate place for that sort of comment is in the ChangeLog file -- which is actually where you'll find it: * (bugfix) require File::Temp 0.18 or newer, as we need seek() (RT#31032) Cheers, Dave
  Wed Jan 28 08:49:21 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Jan 28 19:08:38 2009 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Of course! I had a blind spot there. Thanks!
  Wed Jan 28 19:37:58 2009 dmo+pause [...] dmo.ca - Correspondence added
No problem... the ChangeLog for MIME-tools was awful at one point, so I can't blame you for not looking this time. Cheers, Dave
  Wed Jan 28 19:37:59 2009 dmo+pause [...] dmo.ca - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'