Re: [Fwd: HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler went retroversion]

>> Dave> So why does CPAN think it has no version?
>>
>> Did you recently add the "use mod_perl" stuff?  Apparently, that's
>> been messing up more than one distribution.
> 
> 
> Yep, that was just added for this release.  It used to be farther down 
> in the file, but maybe moving it to the top broke something.  Seems like 
> maybe PAUSE needs to be fixed to not blow up on this, maybe.
> 

Found this:

http://apache.scarlet.be/perl/mod_perl-1.99_13/docs/user/porting/porting.pod

"Though, make sure that you don't use C<$mod_perl::VERSION> string
anywhere in the code before you have declared your module's own
C<$VERSION>, since PAUSE will pick the wrong version when you submit
the module on CPAN. It requires that module's C<$VERSION> will be
declared first. You can verify whether it'll pick the I<Foo.pm>'s
version correctly, by running this code:

   % perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -le 'print MM->parse_version(shift)' Foo.pm

There is more information about this issue here:

http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#conventions

I'm guessing we won't be able to rely on a PAUSE fix anytime soon - 
we'll have to "fix" our "bug" and re-release.

Jon



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