Re: [Module::Build] M::B and version.pm

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

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Actually, I'm running into an issue with the numify() support: it's 
> misnaming my distributions! I have a module that uses version internally:
> 
>   our $VERSION = version->new('0.0.1');
> 
> However, when I build a distribution with it, the tarball isn't named 
> Foo-Bar-0.0.1.tar.gz. It's named Foo-Bar-0.000001.tar.gz!

That's what you asked it to do ('v0.0.1' => 0.000001).  That's also what 
PAUSE will use internally as the version for indexing purposes.

> Is there a way 'round this? Maybe dist_version could store the version 
> object instead of the numified representation, so that the string format 
> (v0.0.1) can be used where appropriate, and the numified representation 
> (0.000001) can be used where appropriate?

Until M::B includes version object support internally, I don't see any 
better way around it.  Currently M::B immediately changes any version 
object into a simple scalar (via numify now).  Unless and until M::B has 
a way to keep the version object around for later usage, it is going to 
have to be either numify() *or* stringify() (and the latter has 
significant problems).

John

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