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

[Paul Poulain]

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 !

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