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

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chris Nighswonger
<cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:
> I think it would be poor practice to expect developers to
> hunt for the oldest package which contained the desired functionality. It
> would be better to adopt a sensible standard and adhere to it, which is what
> I was proposing we do.

There's no harm if a developer who adds a new Perl module dependency
had simply used the latest and greatest, but there's also no harm if
somebody points out that an earlier version of the module can serve
the needs of Koha just as well.  Ideally, Koha's test cases will help
bolster a decision to change a version requirement with evidence.

Since it's a fact of life that different distributions are more or
less conservative about how frequently they update packaged Perl
modules, I think we ought to be a bit more flexible and accept that
sometimes a minimum required version can be decreased.

At least we can be grateful that, as far as I know, we don't have a
situation where we need to specify a *maximum* required version for
any of Koha's dependencies.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
gmcharlt at gmail.com