RE: RFC version issues

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com said:
> So CPAN actually does a configure when you install? Then I guess that people
> are used to these problems.

CPAN builds from a source tar ball.

> The actual version number has nothing to do with this. But it's always clear
> what minimum major version of the dependencies are needed, because the
> configure scripts check for them.

as does our similar code in our Makefile.PL's which will prevent you from
compiling in a bad situation.

> There is no need to discover a version of gtkmm at runtime. Version checks
> are done at configure-time, and by the compiler if you don't get your
> configure-time checks right. But I guess perl applications don't check their
> use of an API until runtime.

yeap. i assume that python (and other scripted languages) would have similar
issues. i can come up with trumpped up cases where you could actually have
problems with compiled (C/C++) code, but i'm not 100% sure they'd be correct.

> I hope you find a solution - it sounds like a generic perl problem so
> hopefully there is a generic solution.

i think that the problem is ignored in most situations (other modules,) but
that wouldn't be our style.

-rm