[Koha-devel] [Koha-patches] [PATCH] [Bug 5465] Makefile.PL asks for too high version of Business::ISBN

[LAURENT Henri-Damien]

Le 02/12/2010 17:28, Paul Poulain a écrit :
> Le 02/12/2010 17:25, Chris Nighswonger a écrit :
>>> I did actually think about this before I did it. :)
>>>
>>> I asked around if it would be better to update the documentation to take
>>> the package out of the install script and add it to the CPAN list, or do
>>> what I did, and the general consensus was that backing down the required
>>> version was a better option (since the newer version doesn't add any
>>> functionality that we actually use), so I did that.
>>>
>>> The reason is that a lot of people use Lenny (and or Ubuntu, which would
>>> cause this same issue), and Squeeze/Sid aren't stable yet (even though they
>>> work fine, I know that). Every indication I've gotten is that "we" prefer
>>> packaged versions of things instead of pulling direct from CPAN. I chose to
>>> eliminate the error message when installing on Lenny/Ubuntu from
>>> Makefile.PL, and allow a required version that was lower than the current
>>> version to help eliminate a bad user experience (An error!!! OMG! What do I
>>> do!).
>>>
> you can count BibLibre in "we" : we prefer packaged versions, no doubts !
> So ++ to your proposition to have the oldest version that works fine
> required !
> 
I agree with that.
But then we have to be quite specific then about the OS we support
Redhat Fedora, CentOS, debian, ubuntu donot have the same standard as of
perl module packaging.
Or should we try and maintain packages for all the versions ?
-- 
Henri-Damien LAURENT