how does bugzilla detect the modules versions?

[Gervase Markham]

Tsahi Asher wrote:
> I am having troubles installing an integration package called SCMBug
> (which is mentioned on the bugzilla add ons wiki page). for some reason
> the latest version fails to detect the version of the DBI perl module
> (returns "undef" from DBI::Version and DBI::VERSION). so i was
> wondering, how does bugzilla detects the version of a module, like DBI?
> i'm asking because bugzilla's checksetup.pl detects the version
> correctly, as it is registered in PPM (i'm running bugzilla on Windows
> Server 2003 x64, with ActivePerl 5.8.8). is there some other API SCMBug
> should be using?

See Requirements.pm, have_vers() subroutine. Basically, it's built around:

eval "require $module;";

Gerv
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