# from John Peacock
# on Sunday 28 January 2007 10:56 am:
>Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> Is the Scalar::Util dependency justified?
>The patch is *removing* the dependency on Scalar::Util and *adding*
> dependencies on locale and POSIX.
My bad. I blame late-night diff reading.
>> Taking advantage of $_[1] being an alias to $VERSION in import()
>> seems a little sneaky, and possibly fragile.
...
> shove the value into the correct scalar. One thing I neglected to
> point out is that this would work as well:
>
> use version $VERSION => qv($Revision: 1.2$);
I'll guess that's supposed to be qw(). No qv before import?
>> What about >> use version $VERSION = 1.2.0;
>> $_[0] = version->new($_[0]); ?
>
>That wouldn't work with the CVS-style initializer as I described
> above. I don't know how many people are still using that mode, but I
> need to get the parameters as a list, not an inline assignment, in
> order for both methods to work.
use version $VERSION = qw$Revision: 1.2$[1];
What's different about cvs versions?
--Eric
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