Mech runs back to Perl 5.8, but LWP requires 5.14

[petdance]

I'm on a Perl 5.10 install doing a fresh build of Mech and am unable to install prereqs.

IO::Socket::IP requires 5.14, and Test::Deep requires 5.12.

--> Working on LWP
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS/libwww-perl-6.77.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring libwww-perl-6.77 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: HTTP::Daemon, HTTP::CookieJar::LWP
--> Working on HTTP::Daemon
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS/HTTP-Daemon-6.16.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring HTTP-Daemon-6.16 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: IO::Socket::IP
--> Working on IO::Socket::IP
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/P/PE/PEVANS/IO-Socket-IP-0.42.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring IO-Socket-IP-0.42 ... OK
Needs perl 5.014, you have 5.010001
! Installing the dependencies failed: Your Perl (5.010001) is not in the range '5.014'
! Bailing out the installation for IO-Socket-IP-0.42.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'IO::Socket::IP' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for HTTP-Daemon-6.16.
--> Working on HTTP::CookieJar::LWP
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/HTTP-CookieJar-0.014.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring HTTP-CookieJar-0.014 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: Test::Deep
--> Working on Test::Deep
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Test-Deep-1.204.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring Test-Deep-1.204 ... N/A
! Configure failed for Test-Deep-1.204. See /Users/andy/.cpanm/work/1732316440.12571/build.log for details.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Test::Deep' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for HTTP-CookieJar-0.014.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'HTTP::Daemon' is not installed, Module 'HTTP::CookieJar::LWP' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for libwww-perl-6.77.

[oalders]

I guess the solution would be to install earlier versions of those modules before attempting the Mech install? I'm not sure what else we could do here.

[petdance]

I'm thinking maybe we don't need to support all the way back to 5.8.

[skaji]

FYI:

I tried preparing CPAN index files for older versions of Perl at
https://github.com/skaji/perl-cpan-index-legacy

❯ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.1 built for darwin-2level

❯ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skaji/cpm/main/cpm | perl - install --resolver 02packages,https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skaji/perl-cpan-index-legacy/main/5.8.1.txt,https://cpan.metacpan.org WWW::Mechanize
WARN You don't have Module::CoreList. The local-lib may result in incomplete self-contained directory.
DONE install ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.70
DONE install Perl-OSType-1.010
DONE install Carp-1.50
DONE install Exporter-5.78
DONE install Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21
DONE install Params-Check-0.38
DONE install Term-Table-0.023
DONE install version-0.9933
DONE install Module-CoreList-5.20241120
DONE install Module-Metadata-1.000038
DONE install Test-Simple-1.302204
DONE install PathTools-3.75
DONE install Module-Load-0.36
DONE install Module-Load-Conditional-0.74
DONE install IPC-Cmd-1.04
DONE install ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280236
DONE install ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.51
DONE install Scalar-List-Utils-1.68
DONE install parent-0.242
DONE install HTML-Tagset-3.20
DONE install LWP-MediaTypes-6.04
DONE install MIME-Base32-1.303
DONE install Clone-0.47
DONE install Try-Tiny-0.32
DONE install URI-5.31
DONE install Test-Harness-3.50
DONE install Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.213
DONE install Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.213
DONE install Module-Build-0.4234
DONE install WWW-RobotRules-6.02
DONE install Time-Local-1.35
DONE install IO-Compress-2.213
DONE install TimeDate-2.33
DONE install Test-Fatal-0.017
DONE install Net-HTTP-6.23
DONE install HTTP-Date-6.06
DONE install File-Listing-6.16
DONE install Encode-3.21
DONE install Encode-Locale-1.05
DONE install IO-HTML-1.004
DONE install HTTP-Message-7.00
DONE install HTTP-Negotiate-6.01
DONE install HTTP-Cookies-6.11
DONE install HTML-Parser-3.83
DONE install HTML-Tree-5.07
DONE install HTML-Form-6.12
DONE install libwww-perl-6.77
DONE install WWW-Mechanize-2.19
48 distributions installed.

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However,

I'm thinking maybe we don't need to support all the way back to 5.8.

I agree.