[Koha-devel] Koha and testing

[dbkliv]

pate at eylerfamily.org wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:44:11PM -0500, Nathan Gray wrote:
>>
>>>I would prefer to use Test::Debugger over Test::More.  I like the
>>>interface of Test.pm, though it doesn't handle all the scenarios I
>>>need.  I wrote a new version of Test.pm, but Test::More beat me to
>>>CPAN.
>>
>>I've use Test::More quite a bit, and have really come to like it. It
>>also comes standard in Perl 5.8 now. I could adapt to another
>>framework though, as long as it works :)
> 
> 
> I'd just as soon we stuck to a standard part of the Perl distro.  The
> fewer bits people need tograb to make Koha work the better (although
> this is easier now that Mike's built the bundle for us.)
> 

I agree with you in spirit. However, what version of Perl are you
expecting users to have installed? Some Koha code has 'use warnings'
pounded out in favor of -w on the #! line, with a comment that
warnings.pm is not available in Perls lower than 5.6.0. Other Koha code
has 'require 5.6.1' in it. Quite contradictory.

Now we're talking about using a module that's standard as of Perl 5.8.
That means non-standard with Perl 5.6, non-standard with Perl 5.0.

So - what's the minimum version of Perl that people should be coding
for? Should Koha be backwards compatible to Perl 5.0?

dbkliv