Re: 5.10.1-RC1, CPANPLUS, and Module::Build

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Jos I. Boumans<[email protected]> wrote:
> Otoh, David probably knows enough about version numbers now to make the
> right call :) And his
> other comments regarding the use of a dev module as a dependency etc of
> course still hold true.

One of my top "todo" items for META.yml is to be ruthlessly explicit
about acceptable formats for specifying version numbers in
dependencies in META.yml.  Right now every tool (and every user) gets
to make it up on their own.  (E.g. EU::MM can't cope with v-strings in
PREREQ_PM last I checked).

In this case, my quick sense is that M::B is doing it wrong to have a
mismatch, but that CPANPLUS (and any other tools) should DWIM and
strip underscores.

I've got to run.  Will ponder more and give a more informed response later.

-- David