Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi,

On Thu, 31 May 2018 08:48:56 +0200
Luc Didry <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> What do you think about dropping the version of MHonArc::UTF8 in
> cpanfile?
> 
> cpanm --installdeps fails because it can't find its version, but it
> doesn't fail if we don't specify that it has to be over 2.6.18. Soji
> said me:
> 
> > MHonArc is so yesterday that its modules do not define $VERSION
> > variables.  So cpanmetadb gives their versions as 'undef'.
> 
> The last version of MHonArc::UTF8 is 4 years old (Apr 22, 2014) while
> the 2.6.18 version is 7 years old. So I think we can assume that
> everybody using cpanm to install Sympa dependencies either will use
> the latest version or already have, at least, the 2.6.18 version.
> 
> The thing is that the use of cpanfile in Travis make the CI fails for
> that stupid reason.
> 
> What do you think?

Though I have not tried, once mhonarc has been installed, it will
never be upgraded.  If we can avoid it (e.g. recommending removal of
local/ before upgrade), I think we may drop version of that module.

Regards,
-- Soji

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