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

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

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Okay, but there does seem to be a conversion problem. Witness this test:
> 
> use strict;
> use version;
> use Test::More tests => 1;
> 
> my $v = version->new('0.0.1');
> my $nv = version->new($v->numify);
> is $nv, $v;
> 
> The output:
> 
> 1..1
> not ok 1
> #   Failed test in /Users/david/bin/try at line 8.
> #          got: '0.000001'
> #     expected: 'v0.0.1'
> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
> 
> Shouldn't they be the same?

Nope.  is() performs an implicit stringification of each term and then 
performs a string comparison (i.e. no overload magic possible).  Replace 
that last line with:

	cmp_ok( $nv,'==', $v);

and it will work as you expected.  No, I don't like it, but I don't have 
any choice...

John

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