Tests fail with Encode 2.90

[eserte]

On a few of my smokers I see the following test failure:

#   Failed test 'TeX/Encode.pm loaded ok'
#   at t/00-compile.t line 45.
#          got: '512'
#     expected: '0'
Can't locate object method "Define" via package "Encode::utf8" at /opt/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Encode.pm line 346.
Compilation failed in require at /opt/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Encode/Encoding.pm line 11.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Encode/Encoding.pm line 11.
Compilation failed in require at /tmpfs/.cpan-build-cpansand/2017091209/TeX-Encode-2.002-12/blib/lib/TeX/Encode.pm line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /tmpfs/.cpan-build-cpansand/2017091209/TeX-Encode-2.002-12/blib/lib/TeX/Encode.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.

This seems to happen if Encode 2.90 is installed. Statistical analysis (theta=-1 means "bad"):

****************************************************************
Regression 'mod:Encode'
****************************************************************
Name           	       Theta	      StdErr	 T-stat
[0='const']    	      1.0000	      0.0000	2807078820829434.50
[1='eq_2.89']  	     -0.0000	      0.0000	  -0.20
[2='eq_2.90']  	     -1.0000	      0.0000	-2431001569263556.50
[3='eq_2.91']  	     -0.0000	      0.0000	  -0.64
[4='eq_2.92']  	     -0.0000	      0.0000	  -1.48

R^2= 1.000, N= 52, K= 5
****************************************************************

To avoid such test failures it's probably best to set a higher prereq version if Encode 2.90 is detected. E.g. like this (untested):

my $Encode_version = 0;
if (eval { require Encode; $Encode::VERSION == 2.90 }) {
    $Encode_version = 2.91;
}
...
PREREQ_PM => { Encode => $Encode_version }

[a3f]

Thanks for your report. I will find out how to do it in Dist::Zilla and update the module appropriately.

[a3f]

I've released it to CPAN. Would be nice if you could check it now does what it should.

[eserte]

This looks good:

$ perl5.16.3 Makefile.PL 
Warning: prerequisite Encode 2.91 not found. We have 2.90.
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for TeX::Encode
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

And the prereq upgrade does not happen if Encode 2.89 or 2.91 is installed.