That seems a reasonable thing to include. Do you think I need to put out 0.33_06 and regress that or just slip it into the 0.34 release?
David On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:19 AM, John Peacock<john.peac...@havurah-software.org> wrote: > David Golden wrote: >> After I get 0.34 out and a good regression test between that and 0.33, >> I expect that 0.34 will go into 5.10.1 and then we can get back to >> further improvements. > > I just realized yesterday that it was not possible to install version.pm 0.77 > on > Perl 5.10.0 without a compiler (i.e. to use the pure Perl module). It turns > out > the fix was extremely small and should be applied to Module::Build's inline > code > as well (see below). > > If it is too late for 0.34, just apply this for the next public M::B release; > it > doesn't affect whatever goes into 5.10.1 (M::B will use the core code anyways) > and it only affects modules which do weird things with eval and locale. > > Thanks > > John > > > === lib/Module/Build/Version.pm > ================================================================== > --- lib/Module/Build/Version.pm (revision 2627) > +++ lib/Module/Build/Version.pm (local) > @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ > no strict 'refs'; > *{'version::stringify'} = \*version::vpp::stringify; > *{'version::(""'} = \*version::vpp::stringify; > + *{'version::new} = \*version::vpp::new; > } > > # Preloaded methods go here. > > >