Ken Williams wrote:
I sort of feel like I should slap the value of $Module::Build::VERSION into every .pm file that's part of the distribution. And do this for all my other distributions too. And create an option in M::B so it does this automatically when running the 'dist' action.
You can certainly do that, and I would argue that you will have to do that before M::B is accepted into the core. But I just want to make sure that everyone understands (I know you do Ken) that it is only the presence of a line that /looks/ like a $VERSION assignment that caused problems in M::B::Base.
That's certainly true. But it also has to play nice with non-version.pm environments since it's backward-compatible to 5.005.
As is version.pm... ;)
I know, you don't want an external dependency, and especially one with an XS component. I'd like to work around that with you...
John
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