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potentially useful. Thoughtlessly upping the prereq versions /might/ work for you, but it may also break a lot. Imagine installed Foo::Bar version 1.81, which passes all your tests and everything works smoothly. Then F;;OOBar gets updated to Foo::Bar 2.00 with a complete new API and tons of new shiny features that users have asker for over the last decade (e.g. after someone else took over maintenance and finaly resolved all open RT tickets gathered during that unmaintained decade). Now you required a version 2.00, as it is available, but you never tested all your stuff with that version.

In an ideal developer world, you'd have a machine that (automatically) installs ever update and then tests all your own (unpublished) modules against those. Only after the tests PASS, you up the prereq version. And if there are circular deps, you'd probably have to go through that cycle a few times.

Just my 2 € for today

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: Checking if your CPAN distributions need to bump their prereq versions by Tux
in thread Checking if your CPAN distributions need to bump their prereq versions by stevieb

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