Re^3: cpan smokers, PREREQ_PM, and PDL dependency (perl-reversion)

I don't think it looks for arbitrary numbers. Reading through the source, it seems to look for things like VERSION followed by something that looks like a version number.

I guess a good workaround could be to use:

BEGIN {
    my $VERSION;
    $VERSION = 1.02;
    use_ok('Some::Module', 1.02);
};
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... but then, I'm not sure what the use of use_ok is anyway. The test will crash if use_ok fails, but if it fails, there is little sense to continue anyway :)

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Re^4: cpan smokers, PREREQ_PM, and PDL dependency (perl-reversion) by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 19, 2015 at 18:01 UTC
Thanks for the reply. I looked at other open patches, and I think I created one for myself: `sub version_re_test { my $ver_re = shift; return qr{ ^ ( .? use_ok .? ) $ver_re ( .* \s*) \z }x; }` [download] I'll test it out, and if it works, I might upload it to RT. Yeah, I'm wondering if use_ok adds any value myself. I thought this was the standard way to test the VERSION variable. Is there another standard way?	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: cpan smokers, PREREQ_PM, and PDL dependency (perl-reversion)
by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 19, 2015 at 18:01 UTC

sub version_re_test {
  my $ver_re = shift;
  return qr{ ^ ( .*? use_ok .*? ) $ver_re ( .* \s*) \z }x;
}
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