Re: Old versions of Test::More

On 04/21/2017 10:36 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 21 Apr 2017, at 15:08, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> As we discovered yesterday via jacana, very old versions of Test::More
>> don't support the note() function. It therefore seems prudent to specify
>> a minimum version number for the module in those scripts that use the
>> function. According to the changelog, version 0.82 (released in Oct
>> 2008) should be sufficient. So I suggest the attached patch.
> +1 for specifying version (0.82 was replaced with 0.84 within hours but it
> doesn’t really matter for this). However, since src/test/ssl/ServerSetup.pm
> also invoke note() doesn’t it make sense to add the version requirement there
> as well as a guard in case a testscript using ServerSetup isn’t explicitly
> specifying the Test::More version?
>

Yeah, good catch. Will do.

cheers

andrew

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