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

[Yitzchak Scott-T. <sth...@ef...>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:46:34PM -0500, John Peacock wrote:
> 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)?

The newer YAMLs require 5.6.1 (plus a lot of other dependency-bloat).