Ken Williams wrote:
I don't intend to change anything in the perl core. This would be
something that happens during "Build dist" and the rest of the world
wouldn't be able to tell anything unusual is going on, because it's just
normal perl code from circa 1994 at that point.
Are you just thinking that `Build dist` would replace the $VERSION line
with the numeric equivalent in every .pm that is being included in the
tar file? That's not a half bad idea, since there would be only one
process (M::B) that would be responsible for evaluating whatever
complicated magic the author is using in the source module to assign
$VERSION. It would still mean M::B would have to eval() the line, but
you already do that now and no one's been [seriously] hurt. ;-)
John
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