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From:
Johan Vromans
Date:
January 24, 2012 23:41
Subject:
Re: Reaction to Redhat/Fedora modified releases
Message ID:
m2pqe86xfl.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl
David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, EU::MM is a "devel" tool,
> but it's also the standard way to do other things as well, such as
> safely parse a "$VERSION =" string out of arbitrary perl code.

A good example of a typical development-oriented operation.

Even if it were a common thing to do, then move the VERSION string
parsing function to, say, version.pm, and have E::U use that.

And of problems.

-- Johan
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