RE: RFC version issues



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



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