Re: [Module::Build] [Fwd: CPAN Upload: J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-AlphaBeta-0.06.tar.gz]

[John P. <jpe...@ro...>]

Ron Savage wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:10:51 -0500, John Peacock wrote:
> 
> Hi John
> 
>> version-AlphaBeta-0.06.tar.gz
> 
> Now I'm wondering who will invoke this code.
> 
> For instance, will Module::Build look to see if this module - and 'version' - 
> are installed, and load them both, so as to call methods in 'version-AlphaBeta'?

Sadly, no that won't completely work yet.  I was mostly setting the ground work
for eventual support.

The problem is that Module::Build (and the PAUSE indexer, and of course EU::MM)
try to be cute with the $VERSION assignment, so they don't always react well
when something different than a straight assignment is there.  Presumably, as
soon as 0.27_08 is released, Module::Build will use the numify() method by
default, so this line:

	use version::AlphaBeta; $VERSION = version::AlphaBeta->new("0.1a");

will display (for Module::Build purposes) as:

	Creating new 'Build' script for 'Foo-Version' version '0.099997'

which will "work" but won't be what we want (in general).  I'm not sure how to
solve this in general (apart from providing a Module::Build::version class,
which handles this much better and DTRT more often).

John

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