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

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:09 PM, LAURENT Henri-Damien <
henridamien.laurent at biblibre.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

This is my only fear. If we stray too far into specifying *which* OS we will
support, unforeseen problems could arise. And we begin introducing
restrictions.

However, regardless of the direction we take, we should standardize and
state it so that we have a consistent understanding among developers.


> Or should we try and maintain packages for all the versions ?
>
>
Ich... I think this would be a pit into which we would not want to fall.

Kind Regards,
Chris
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