I will have to look into Dist::Zilla, with thanks for the hint to hippo and 1nickt, but from this description, it does not seem to do what I want — if the other modules are to carry the same version as the "lead" module (which in WARC exists in part for that purpose) then I firmly believe that they should actually alias that value to make it obvious that they do not have independent versions. Perl understands this, but the CPAN indexer does not.

If I put separate $VERSION literals in each module, I want them updated if and only if that module has been changed since its version was last updated. Does Dist::Zilla support this or am I back to needing to write something that does what I want?

Is there a convention that module versions should be "dense" or is skipping versions acceptable?

Is there a convention for bundling distribution-specific maintenance tools into a distribution? A way to distribute a specialized support tool on a "this works for me and this distribution; feel free to use or adapt it for your work" basis?

If I was afraid of learning curves, I would not be contributing to CPAN...

In reply to Re^2: Using a Single Point of Truth for $VERSION in a distribution? by jcb
in thread Using a Single Point of Truth for $VERSION in a distribution? by jcb

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