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

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

On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 03:03  PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>> Since this is a pretty hard and dangerous task,
>
> See, it's not dangerous per se, it's only dangerous on PAUSE. The
> META.yml file will only be generated on the developer's own box, so
> there's no need to protect from that sort of malicious code.

Very good point.

>> 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 believe that MakeMaker's parse_version does a pretty good job and
> Module::Info claims to follow MakeMaker's lead.

I think MakeMaker is doing an easier and smaller task - just figuring 
out the version of the "chief" module in the distribution.  So it only 
looks for the first line in the chief .pm file that looks like it 
contains a $VERSION.

By contrast, to create the index of all modules & versions in the 
distribution, we have to find all 'package' declarations (which 
Module::Info does a nice job at), and all $VERSIONs within those 
packages (which it doesn't do yet).  Correct me if I'm wrong in my 
understanding, of course.

I'm going to look at Module::Info and try to add a package_version() 
method or something to it if it's not too terribly hard.

  -Ken