Re: [Module-build-general] More version info in META.yml

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

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 12:11  PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:

>>>>>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:53:25 -0800, sc...@po... (Michael G. 
>>>>>> Schwern) said:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:43:37PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
>>>>>   2) What about .pm files that contain multiple packages?  Should
>>>>> those
>>>>> packages be included too, like the PAUSE namespace indexer does?
>>>>
>>>> Is the PAUSE indexer that smart?  I don't think it is.
>>>
>>> Yup, it is:
>
>> Maybe we should borrow the code then?
>
> In case you don't know, PAUSE code is available in a subversion
> repository and in daily snapshots. Daily dumps of the subversion repo
> are also there. The dumps and snapshots are at
>
>     ftp://pause.perl.org/pub/PAUSE/PAUSE-code/
>
> The repository itself is
>
>     http://pause.perl.org:5459/svn/pause/trunk
> or
>     https://pause.perl.org:5460/svn/pause/trunk
>
> The http adresses can also be browsed.
>
> The indexer is in cron/mldistwatch.

Thanks.

Am I right that something like the following is what we're aiming for?

provides:
   Foo::Bar:
     file: Bar.pm
     version: 0.12
   Foo::Bar::Baz:
     file: lib/Foo/Bar/Baz.pm
     version: ~

(the '~' is YAML for undef)

>
> Problem is, it is not a tiny program but 2000+ lines long and probably
> not easy to follow and dissect. What do you suggest?


So, I started hacking my way through that code, slurping the relevant 
bits into Module::Build::Base.  It was going pretty well.  But then I 
got to the part where we try to figure out the version of each package, 
and I nearly fainted.

Since this is a pretty hard and dangerous task, maybe we ought to 
really get it right and have it in a module.  Could we try to use 
Module::Info for this?  Even if Module::Info doesn't work correctly, 
maybe the best thing to do would be to fix Module::Info.

I'd just hate to spend a lot of time on this and have the code buried 
in Module::Build, when this is exactly the kind of thing Module::Info 
aims to do correctly.

  -Ken