> the new boilerplate of use 'Version::Easy'
- It's far easier to explain use MODULE to a beginner
- as already said, this could already be activated in a meta package
- you don't need an our declaration
- you can catch format errors right when developing
- you can catch multiple $VERSION errors by making it readonly
> Any tool doing "static" version extraction isn't aided by a module like Version::Easy.
I think you were the one suggesting using tr/_// after declaration, in which way do static parsers do better with your approach?
I think you were the one pointing to the need for developers to check $VERSION in the their tool chain, like test suite?
An object is more robust towards comparing different formats.
> and adds several dependencies.
I only used core modules, and version.pm is loaded anyway in every Perl run using use.
The dependency to Tie::StdScalar could easily be removed.
Questions
- I realize that MakeMaker documents that it can't parse v-strings but I can't find the code for ->parse_version and my tests show any quoted string.°
- Who exactly calls MakeMaker? The author using a recent Perl, or the user who might be using Perl 5.8?
- it's it possible to install a new version of
MakeMaker via dependency?
°) looks like v-string here means the literal v1.2.3 notation while quoted strings "v1.2.3" are ok
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