On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 04:34:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hah ... your backpan link led me to realize the actual problem with
> Test::More. It got folded into Test::Simple at some point, and
> evidently cpanm isn't smart enough to handle a request for a back
> version in such cases. But this works:
>
> $ cpanm install Test::Simple@0.87_01
> ...
> $ perl -MTest::More -e 'print $Test::More::VERSION, "\n";'
> 0.8701
>
> So we oughta recommend that instead. Now I'm wondering what
> version of IPC::Run to recommend.
You mentioned prairiedog uses IPC::Run 0.79. That's from 2005. (Perl 5.8.3
is from 2004, and Test::More 0.87 is from 2009.) I'd just use 0.79 in the
README recipe. IPC::Run is easy to upgrade, so if we find cause to rely on a
newer version, I'd be fine updating that requirement.