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

[LAURENT Henri-Damien]

Le 02/12/2010 22:28, Galen Charlton a écrit :
> 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.

iirc, we had that case for PDF::API2.
-- 
Henri-Damien LAURENT