Re: [Module::Build] Re: [Yaml-core] yaml_dump on version objects

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

Ken Williams wrote:
> 
> On Feb 15, 2006, at 4:06 PM, John Peacock wrote:
>> Never mind.  Upgrading YAML to current (0.58) works much better and 
>> setting $YAML::Stringify does exactly what we want.
> 
> Is there no way to support YAML 0.35?  That's our current YAML 
> prerequisite.

Nope.  Once you throw an object into the mix, YAML gets very confused. 
Apply my patch and try it with 0.35 and you will see:

1) a screenful of warnings thrown during the META.yml creation;
2) worse yet, the META.yml is malformed (it doesn't include either a 
dump of the version object as hash nor the correct stringified 
representation).

I can, with some more difficulty, patch M::B to force a stringification 
of version objects prior to inserting them into the $node, but it isn't 
nearly as clean.

Is there some overriding reason you are avoiding upgrading the YAML 
prereq to 0.50 (which in itself isn't even the current rev)?

John

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