Re: Version Problem?

Adam, John, Randy,

Thanks for the insights into this problem. The scheme I adopted was
produced by running Module-Starter-PBP-0.0.2. It inserted the version
number with the qv() and I said to myself "cool, one less thing to think
about!" :-) .  Well the joke's on me, but I suspect others will also run
into this problem.

I think I'll take Adams advice about the version number:

0.0.1 -> 0.000001

John, FWIW I am using: ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30.

-James

Adam Kennedy wrote:
> This short answer is "Unlike you may have read about in some Perl 
> books, the use of three part versions unless entirely necesary is 
> discouraged. STILL".
>
> Edge cases like this keep popping up, and if you can avoid three part 
> versions, and just use a more traditional 0.01 versioning, please do so.
>
> Adam K
>
> James Muir wrote:
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a module for submission to CPAN. When I use 
>> Build.PL, the module builds without any problems (as far as I can 
>> tell :-)), BUT... when I use Makefile.PL I get the following message:
>>
>> (/home/james/Gtk2-Ex-MindMapView-0.0.1)> perl Makefile.PL
>> Version string 'undef' contains invalid data; ignoring: 'undef' at 
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm line 1307.
>> Writing Makefile for Gtk2::Ex::MindMapView
>>
>> my simple Makefile.PL is as follows:
>>
>> (/home/james/Gtk2-Ex-MindMapView-0.0.1)> cat Makefile.PL
>> # Note: this file was auto-generated by Module::Build::Compat version 
>> 0.03
>> use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
>> WriteMakefile
>> (
>>          'PL_FILES' => {},
>>          'INSTALLDIRS' => 'site',
>>          'NAME' => 'Gtk2::Ex::MindMapView',
>>          'EXE_FILES' => [],
>>          'VERSION_FROM' => 'lib/Gtk2/Ex/MindMapView.pm',
>>          'PREREQ_PM' => {
>>                           'Test::More' => 0,
>>                           'Gnome2::Canvas' => 0,
>>                           'version' => 0,
>>                           'Graph' => 0
>>                         }
>>        )
>> ;
>>
>>
>> and the version info in MindMapView.pm is as follows:
>>
>> (/home/james/Gtk2-Ex-MindMapView-0.0.1/lib/Gtk2/Ex)> cat 
>> MindMapView.pm | head
>>
>> package Gtk2::Ex::MindMapView;
>>
>> use version; $VERSION = qv('0.0.1');
>>
>> use warnings;
>> use strict;
>> use Carp;
>>
>> use Gnome2::Canvas;
>>
>>
>> as far as I know about the module building process (which is very 
>> little at this point), everything looks OK. What am I missing?
>> -James
>>
>>
>>
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