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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 02:00:57PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
>>On Jan 25, 2005, at 3:26 PM, John Peacock wrote:
>>>Jos I. Boumans wrote:
>>>>I suppose if Module::Build::Base would say, at the top:
>>>> $VERSION = $Module::Build::VERSION
>>>>this would make EU::MM, M::IV, M::L::C and of course CPANPLUS::inc
>>>>find a 'real' version declaration, rather than something evil that
>>>>will blow away UNIVERSAL::VERSION.
>>>
>>>Yes, that would be an appropriate fix to M::B::Base.
>>
>>That won't work. All those tools evaluate the version line in
>>isolation, not by loading the modules and checking the value of
>>$VERSION. In other words, when Module::Build::Base's version is
>>checked, Module::Build won't be loaded, so the version would be undef.
>
> $VERSION = do { require Module::Build; $Module::Build::VERSION };
IIRC, I've read some bit of docs that says that PAUSE (or possibly
search.cpan.org) not only runs only that line of code, but runs it
inside a Safe compartment, and possibly uses some other tricks, the
exact nature of which is undocumented. It won't neccessarly be allowed
to require anything, and if it is, Module::Build might not actually be
there. Of course, it might not be a problem if PAUSE doesn't correctly
see the version of Module::Build::Base, but all in all, it's probably
best that there just be an ordinary scalar assignment there. (Possibly
put there by automated means.)
-=- James Mastros
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