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

[Chris D. <ch...@cl...>]

On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 01:57  PM, Ken Williams wrote:

>
> 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

Sounds good.  One possible workaround would be if YAML would output
    version: '1.10'
instead of
    version: 1.10
which should be safe against any valid YAML parser implementation.  
But, again, that relies on a change to YAML, not M::B.  Sigh.  I'll 
read up on Syck.

Chris