On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jonathan Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyway, what I have decided to do is just update META.yml manually.
You don't need to do that. You just need to set "dist_version" in Build.PL. > Maybe in the future I'll just stop using version.pm for my modules' > $VERSION altogether, and just deal with versions manually as people > used to do. Part (a) is a good idea. Part (b) is not. There's nothing that needs to be "manual" about it. Get Perl::Version and use the 'perl-reversion' script in examples: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ANDYA/Perl-Version-1.009/examples/perl-reversion > With respect to what David Golden mentioned a few posts back, I don't > think the version number on the files you have matters at all. They > just need to be different from each other. I use version.pm with > versions like 1.1.1, with META entries saying 1.001001. And the > resulting filename is something like Module-Name-1.1.1.tar.gz. The matter to the extent that you care that your META.yml corresponds to your distribution's unique identity. You could put anything you want for "name", too, and nothing will likely "break" except any tool that actually expects to use "name" or "version" to correspond to those portions of the unique identity. To put it differently, given only a META.yml file, how can you find the distribution it references on a CPAN mirror? It's already not easy, as the uploader's PAUSE ID is not contained in META.yml (though the "author" key might contain it). However, if "name" and "version" don't match the filename, it's impossible without searching every single archive on CPAN for a matching META.yml. Just because it doesn't *have* to match, doesn't mean it shouldn't. > The reason I've never released a module with a vstring-style version > number is because it causes test failures with Test::YAML::Meta. So it Which is a "bug" in Test::YAML::Meta that can be fixed by adding two characters ("v?") to the appropriate part of the regex. I already sent Barbie a patch for it a couple weeks ago. And I really don't think you should choose a version-style based on a test module. -- David
