Bug #2920 for Scalar-List-Utils: [BUG] $Scalar::Util::VERSION unknown to CPAN

Wed Jul 09 06:09:46 2003 steve [...] purkis.ca - Ticket created

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[BUG] $Scalar::Util::VERSION unknown to CPAN

Hi, I've experienced minor problems installing Scalar::Util from the cpan shell. It looks to me like CPAN can't figure out what the version number is: Show quoted text

cpan> i /Scalar::Util/

... CPAN_VERSION undef ... INST_VERSION 1.07 And consequently: Show quoted text

cpan> install Scalar::Util

Scalar::Util is up to date. The same is true when you look at: http://search.cpan.org/author/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.11/ (ie: no version number listed for Scalar::Util) My suggested fix is to hard-code $VERSION as in List::Util. Hope this helps, -Steve

Wed Jul 09 12:18:14 2003 gbarr [...] pobox.com - Correspondence added

Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:20:55 -0700
Subject:	Re: [cpan #2920] [BUG] $Scalar::Util::VERSION unknown to CPAN
From:	Graham Barr <gbarr [...] pobox.com>
To:	bug-Scalar-List-Utils [...] rt.cpan.org
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On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 03:09 US/Pacific, Steve_Purkis via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> > My suggested fix is to hard-code $VERSION as in List::Util.

Then I have to maintain the number in 2 places, thats asking for me to make a mistake. Just tell CPAN to install List::Util as they always come together. Graham.

Wed Jul 09 15:38:23 2003 gbarr [...] pobox.com - Correspondence added

Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:41:06 -0700
Subject:	Re: [Comment] Re: [cpan #2920] [BUG] $Scalar::Util::VERSION unknown to CPAN
From:	Graham Barr <gbarr [...] pobox.com>
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On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 11:36 US/Pacific, spurkis@epn.nu via RT wrote: Show quoted text

>> Just tell CPAN to install List::Util as they always come together.

> > That's what I ended up doing. But the idea was to spare others the > learning curve... I tracked it down to good ol' MakeMaker - it seems > CPAN.pm uses MM->parse_version. Adding this to Scalar::Util should fix > the problem: > > # make version visible to CPAN: > $VERSION = (require(List::Util), $List::Util::VERSION)[1];

That might work. The Safe compartment used by search.cpan.org may not allow this to work, but I will look into it Show quoted text

> While it shouldn't give users any performance overheads, CPAN machines > might incur a slight overhead as they've got to load List::Util.. And > I don't really know enough to estimate the impact of that. >

The overhead will not be noticed Graham.

Sat Oct 29 17:43:49 2005 GBARR [...] CPAN.ORG - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'