Re: [Module::Build] Making 0.28 a reality

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

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> Maybe I'm changing the topic a little, but *why* are you making
> version dependent on Module::Build?

Reverse that.  We are trying to make Module::Build use version.pm for all of its
internal version comparisons.

> I don't like the idea of requiring YAML for non-module-authors at all.
> Maybe you could look more into declaring a version::yaml_dump routine
> that might work for YAML 0.3[5-9]?  I'm sure the YAML people would be
> glad to give pointers.

I tried that and could get YAML to call the version::yaml_dump routine.  I'd be
happy to go that route if someone could tell me how to do it.  YAML pre-0.50
didn't handle objects very well (lots of warnings and malformed output).  And
unlike one would expect, YAML didn't just do $obj->can('yaml_dump') and then
call the routine, it just bullies along and dumps version objects weirdly.

John

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