Re: [Module::Build] META.yml version numbers

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

On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 01:42  PM, Chris Dolan wrote:

> I just posted a bug for YAML that affects M::B's creation of META.yml 
> files.
>   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=4066
>
> YAML's Dump method doesn't respect whether a scalar is a string or a 
> number, so trailing zeros on version numbers are dropped when reading 
> .yml files.   See the above URL for a very simple failing example.
>
> I haven't yet thought of a workaround that doesn't involve changes to 
> YAML.pm.

Hi Chris,

Yeah, this is an unfortunate bug in YAML.  Apparently there's a new 
version of YAML.pm that Brian's been working on, and it's been released 
in a preliminary version at 
http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/YAML-Parser-Syck-0.01/ .

Fortunately the YAML we emit is correct, and it's only YAML.pm reading 
it back in that's buggy.  So we don't actually need to fix any bugs in 
Module::Build or rely on Brian's new parser.

  -Ken