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

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Jonathan Swartz wrote:

> 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.

Ah, I see.  I thought Randal was saying that the problem was simple the 
"use mod_perl;" line.

I moved the $VERSION to the top.  Any reason to not release a 1.2701 
release?  Or should it just be 1.28?


-dave

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