Hi John, last November we had a painful thread about the fact that Module::Build is completely unavailable for older bleadperls:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2006/11/msg443.html I've since been hit more than once by this serious drawback. People ask me to do some binary searches for module X and whenever X uses Module::Build and the area of failure is before patch 25000 or so (do not know the exact number) I usually have to give up because MB cannot work with perl's version.pm and cannot use its own version.pm for the reasons you explained in the cited thread. I could imagine a perl-only version of version.pm would be able to resolve this given that I could enforce it to run on these bleadperls. Is this something you could imagine doing? What's the scope that would need to be dealt with? Any other ideas how this could be fixed or worked around? Any other ideas how we can get rid of the dependency of Module::Build on version.pm altogether? -- andreas
