Bug #24427 for version: Pure Perl Version

Wed Jan 17 19:03:59 2007 justin [...] skazat.com - Ticket created

Subject:

Pure Perl Version

I had this problem with Text::Balanced - the newest version relies on version.pm. The problem is that version.pm doesn't have a Pure Perl version of itself, so any Pure Perl CPAN module that relies on it, all of a sudden isn't a Pure Perl module anymore. I've only had this problem with Text::Balanced, but if more and more modules rely on this module for functionality, I'm going to be left in the dark, having to rely on older and older versions of CPAN modules. This is a problem if you use your own system to distribute CPAN modules along with a Perl program that requires it. This situation comes up frequently when you create a program distribution whose audience isn't the developer/programmer crowd. I understand that "use version" will become a pragma in ver 5.10 of Perl, but this still leads to some annoying deprecation bugs. Is there a chance to have a Pure Perl version, of version?

Wed Jan 17 19:06:40 2007 justin [...] skazat.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Pure Perl Version (nevermind, the option is already available!)
From:	justin [...] skazat.com

Gah. Color my silly. I should have read the README - there's already a pure perl version, *I* just have to figure out how to tell CPAN and a Bundle module to give it to me). I owe you a pint. Tell me when you're in Denver :) Cheers, Justin On Wed Jan 17 19:03:59 2007, justin@skazat.com wrote: Show quoted text

> I had this problem with Text::Balanced - the newest version relies on > version.pm. The problem is that version.pm doesn't have a Pure Perl > version of itself, so any Pure Perl CPAN module that relies on it, all > of a sudden isn't a Pure Perl module anymore. I've only had this problem > with Text::Balanced, but if more and more modules rely on this module > for functionality, I'm going to be left in the dark, having to rely on > older and older versions of CPAN modules. > > This is a problem if you use your own system to distribute CPAN modules > along with a Perl program that requires it. This situation comes up > frequently when you create a program distribution whose audience isn't > the developer/programmer crowd. > > I understand that "use version" will become a pragma in ver 5.10 of > Perl, but this still leads to some annoying deprecation bugs. > > Is there a chance to have a Pure Perl version, of version?

Fri Jan 26 20:39:15 2007 jpeacock [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Resolving.

Fri Jan 26 20:39:17 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Jan 26 20:39:18 2007 jpeacock [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'