[Dancer-users] Recent Build requirement breaks 5.8.x installs

[Alberto Simoes]

Lee,
   can I ask you to remove the line requiring that module from 
Makefile.PL and testing the module? I think it is there by mistake, but 
I do not have a 5.8.x perl to test here.

Thank you

On 31/05/2011 17:32, David Precious wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:25:24 Lee Carmichael wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was in the process of upgrading to Dancer 1.3051 on one machine that
>> runs Perl 5.8 and it failed due to build requirement of
>> 'Tie::Hash::NamedCapture'. This was added to Perl in 5.10.  The main
>> headache for me is that it broke the 'cpan install Dancer' command.
>> But it didn't stop me from updating dancer by hand.
>>
>> I hate to be the one asking for support on an dated language version
>> but i guess i am :) Should I open a bug for this or is the forward
>> direction of Dance away from 5.8?
>
> We don't want to break compatibility with 5.8.x if we can possibly help it; we
> realise that there are plenty of users still stuck on 5.8.x, for whatever
> reason.
>
> I'll take a look in to that and see where the requirement comes from, and see
> if we can work round it.
>
> If we depend on it for certain features, such as being able to use captures()
> to get params by name, we should just throw a warning at runtime if we're on
> an older Perl, but let everything else still work.
>
>