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Id: 60568
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Module-Build
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: dolmen [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.3607
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Fri Aug 20 14:50:06 2010 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: distmeta: invalid requires/perl version (v-string)
M::B 0.3607 generates invalid version values in META.yml. With the following arg: requires => { perl => '5.6.0', } the META.yml generated by './Build distmeta' contains: requires: perl: v5.6.0 The 'perl' version value is a v-string. This does not match the specification for versions: http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html#version_specifications Attached a test Build.PL. -- Olivier Mengué - http://o.mengue.free.fr/
Subject: Build.PL
use Module::Build; Module::Build->new( dist_name => 'toto', dist_version => 1, dist_author => 'DOLMEN', dist_abstract => 'Toto', requires => { perl => '5.6.0', XXXYYZ => '5.6.0', } )->create_build_script;
  Fri Aug 20 14:51:25 2010 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from 'distmeta: invalid requires/perl version (v-string)' to 'distmeta: invalid versions created in META.yml (v-string)'
  Fri Aug 20 16:53:23 2010 schwern [...] pobox.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #60568] distmeta: invalid requires/perl version (v-string)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:53:00 -0700
To: bug-Module-Build [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Michael G Schwern <schwern [...] pobox.com>
On 2010.8.20 11:50 AM, Olivier 'dolmen' Mengué via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> With the following arg: > > requires => { > perl => '5.6.0', > } > > the META.yml generated by './Build distmeta' contains: > > requires: > perl: v5.6.0 > > > The 'perl' version value is a v-string. This does not match the > specification for versions: > http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html#version_specifications
META 1.4 defines how you can say "higher than this version" or "equal to this version" but it never specifies the format of a version or even how to compare them. The defacto standard is "whatever version.pm accepts". I guess you could read "version number" to mean "versions are a number" but that would be overly an legalistic reading of slippery semantics. META 2.0 defines the version format, and it is X.Y or vX.Y.Z. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Meta-2.102160/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm#Version_Formats While Module::Build is still splitting out 1.4, its using META 2.0 to fill in this ambiguity in the 1.4 spec. Did this change break something? -- The interface should be as clean as newly fallen snow and its behavior as explicit as Japanese eel porn.
  Fri Aug 20 16:53:24 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Dec 05 21:42:03 2010 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
This issue won't be fixed for META.yml but will be fixed instead when Module::Build starts using version 2 of the META spec.
  Sun Dec 05 21:42:04 2010 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'