shorter pod lists
preserve whitespace in inserted Makefile.PL lines
declare a minimum perl prerequisite
more external references
report the versions of modules used in optional tests
require at least 0.009 for proper END block sanity
more precise skip_all messages re optional tests
the files are encoded when written to disk, so the content must be decoded when we provide it
Test-LWP-UserAgent-0.026

          - resolve test failure when a prereq is too old