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From:
Steffen Mueller
Date:
January 25, 2012 09:20
Subject:
Re: Reaction to Redhat/Fedora modified releases
Message ID:
4F2039D5.6000908@cpan.org
On 01/25/2012 08:41 AM, Johan Vromans wrote:
> 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.

No. It not as easy as mandating that things should work differently. It 
needs to happen across the board. Have fun with that. And the example 
is, likely, one of many.

--Steffen

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