Re: [Module::Build] Buglet: Creative use of $VERSION confuses M::B

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Johan Vromans wrote:

>
> Probably the best pseudo-solution to this pseudo-parsing problem is to
> stop parsing after the first successful assignment, and put a remark
> in the documentation.

I believe that's what we actually do now, in the latest beta versions.

It's worth noting, however, that we can fix M::B's parsing all we  
want, and still there will be parsers on PAUSE and in MakeMaker that  
will barf on the same input.  So probably it would be helpful for  
someone (not me!) to have a tool that authors could run when they  
build their distributions, looking for typical constructions that  
tend to cause such barfs.

  -Ken