A quick fix to the tests and a new feature! I caved in. MM->parse_version() will now try to load version.pm before checking the $VERSION of a module. This allows this to work:
our $VERSION = qv(1.2.3); Of course, you need MakeMaker 6.35 for that. And its still up to you to depend on version.pm. 6.35 Sun Jul 1 20:53:38 PDT 2007 New Features * MakeMaker will now try to "use version" before parsing $VERSION. This allows "$VERSION = qv(1.2.3)" to work. Test Fixes - writemakefile_args.t now works with older versions of version.pm