On Jul 13, 2006, at 05:56, Fergal Daly wrote:
That's funny, it looks like I did put some code in to disable the END block if it's "require"d rather than "use"d. Turns out I did this to make MakeMaker happy, so MakeMaker does actually do a full require,
Well, IIRC, both MakeMaker and Module::Build grep for the version line and eval that one line, but not the whole file. The CPAN indexer, OTOH, evals no code but just uses a regular expression search of the module file.
Best, David
