Which one is the highest Perl version which I would not mention anymore as a requirement in a documentation?
For example I’ve never seen: Needs Perl 4 or higher.
Which one is the highest Perl version which I would not mention anymore as
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Which one is the highest Perl version which I would not mention anymore as a requirement in a documentation?
For example I’ve never seen: Needs Perl 4 or higher.
Ultimately, there is no harm in providing extra information to the user, so if you know of incompatibility with even a very old version, you might as well mention it.
Perl 4 is considered a separate language, however. There is no need to mention that; no one would expect a C++ program to run in C.
Judging from people’s questions on this forum, 5.8 is still in widespread use. So if you are interested in making a module that is well-tested and as widely useful as possible, I think it would be a good idea to at least go back that far with your testing.
If you need a certain version to run, using
require VERSIONwithin your module could be helpful to enforce this requirement. That way, the user gets a clear error message if they try to run your module on a version that is too old.