Hi all,

Does anyone know how to inherit version form a module without doing...

    use Some::Module;
    
    our $VERSION = $Some::Module::VERSION || -1;

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I want all modules of a bundle to all reflect the same version.

Sounds ugly I know but I can have CVS incriment the toplevel importer modules version, and for all other modules to reflect that they are the same animal.

Of course I could have a module just for containing $VERSION like:-

package Bundle::VERSION;

our ($VERSION) = ('$Revision: 1.1 $' =~ /Revision:\s+(\S+)/); # for CV
+S

sub import{
(shift || '') eq __PACKAGE__ or return 1;
no strict 'refs';
${caller().'::VERSION'} = $VERSION;
1;
}


package Bundle::Whatever;

use Bundle::VERSION;

our $VERSION;

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But I thought there must be a better way??

In reply to Inheritting Version by Anonymous Monk

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