Lire 2.0, OpenBSD 3.5 and DBI perl module version (was: Re: Announcing Lire 2.0rc1)

[Joost van Baal]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:47:12AM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> On September 1, 2004 09:03, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:22:32AM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> > > We are please to announce that Lire 2.0rc1 is available from
> > >
> > >   http://www.logreport.org/pub/lire.2.0rc1.tar.gz
> > >
> > > This is a pre-release of Lire 2.0. It has only been tested on Debian
> > > unstable but it should work on other UNIX platforms without too much
> > > trouble.
> >
> > FYI: OpenBSD 3.5 only ships p5-DBI-1.38.tgz in it's ports collection.
> > Lire 2.0 rc1 however needs DBI >= 1.42.
> >
> > I _might_ have time to install this manually on my box, so that I can do
> > proper testing of this Lire release.
> 
> There is no requirements on any specific version of DBI. (Well, I'm sure
> that very old version might cause problem, but 1.42 is the latest). I've
> looked at the CVS log and that version check was added when the
> tests for the Perl modules was changed to use a macro. So it is probably an 
> error.
> 
> I've removed the version dependency in CVS.

OK, thanks.  Here's another one: OpenBSD 3.5 ships with
p5-Curses-UI-0.74.tgz, while Lire 2.0 rc1 claims to need Curses::UI >=
0.92.

What do you think; is this a strictly needed requirement?

Thanks, Bye,

Joost

PS & FYI: DBD::SQLite is not shipped with the OpenBSD ports, I've
installed this directly from CPAN.

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