On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:00:14AM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
>  > For good or for ill, that's the way it is.  Making all the various
>  > core routines to check versions consistant, and writing down a
>  > definitive guide to how checks are done is a Good Thing.  Making sure
>  > Exporter and CPAN and use() do the same thing with versions is important.
>  
>  I would prefer to go this route, and would be happy to help with a 
>  little poke in the right direction.  I would actually like to make sure 
>  this would be the new example code:
>  
>  	$VERSION = qw($Revision: 1.51 $)[1];
>  
>  since that is vastly easier than the leaping and jumping that is 
>  suggested in perlmod.  Would the correct place to patch be Exporter
>  and have CPAN import that one routine?  Where does use() get its logic
>  from and should that be patched and imported into both Exporter and
>  CPAN?  Or do I track down the v.10.10 code and make all of them use
>  that instead?

The code for use() is in C code, it is the UNIVERAL::VERSION method.
It was added because the check in Exporter is insufficient as it
does not allow version checking on packages that do not use Exporter.
Exporter should be changed to call PACKAGE-> VERSION($needed), then
it will use the same code.

Graham.