| Subject: | perlver should report the reason(s) for the discovered minimum version |
It would be helpful to have the report include the reasons(s) for the
discovered minimum version.
If using ~~ caused the minimum version to bumped to 5.10, then reporting
that would help module authors understand why 5.10 is required, and
whether it was worth it.
It'd be very helpful for people trying to write code that works on old
perls because they could incrementally remove the highest-version-
requiring constructs to reduce the minimum version required to whatever
level they require.
It might not be possible to incorporate that into the current output
format easily, in which case it might require an additional command line
switch to request it, or it might be included only when giving a
different output format (like HTML).