Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> writes:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 at 19:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> As an affected committer, I want to push back against having such
>> a requirement, because I don't think it is reasonable to require
>> everybody to have precisely version XYZ of perltidy installed.
>> If that's not the version provided by their platform-of-choice,
>> it's an annoying hurdle.
>
> That's why I tried to make that hurdle as small as possible. All
> that's needed with the current patchset is:
>
> wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20230309.tar.gz
> cpanm -l $HOME/perltidy-20230309 Perl-Tidy-20230309.tar.gz
You can ask cpanm to install a specific version without having to
download the tarball manually or knowing who made the release and which
archive format they used:
cpanm -l $HOME/perltidy-20230309 Perl::Tidy@20230309
- ilmari
