John Peacock wrote:
> Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> Also, what's _verify() doing sniffing around in the guts of version.pm 
>> objects
>> anyway?
> 
> The code in Module::Build::Version is a verbatim copy of the version.pm pure
> Perl code, so it is acceptable to peer through the veil here.

Its a verbatim copy of version.pm *now*, but things change and fall out of
sync.  What happens when version.pm 0.8 changes its guts and
Module::Build::Version 0.7203 tries to load and "verify" it?  Kersplooy!

Why is version.pm so untrusting of its own objects anyway?

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