Hi

I've recently been trying to catch up and improve my Perl skills. That includes trying to get my code to pass perlcritic (with suitable configuration) and trying to use Dist::Zilla to automate builds. However I keep running into a problem:

PkgVersion adds a line setting $VERSION after each package line, saving the bother of updating these by hand and the probable inconsistencies caused by that.

However, Perl::Critic::(...)::RequireUseStrict will complain about the version setting code coming before use strict; in the module. (same applies for ...::RequireUseWarnings)

If I move use strict; use warnings; before the package statement, Perl::Critic::(...)::RequireExplicitPackage complains that I have code outside of an explicit package.

I would like to keep both of these policies to tell me about mistakes. However in this case the violations seem harmless, right?

I am also wondering, is there a reason to prefer one of

use strict; 
use warnings;
package Foo;
...
[download]

versus

package Foo;
use strict;
use warnings;
...
[download]

Is one more helpful than the other?

My current thinking is that it will be best to modify Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PkgVersion to put the version number after strictures. However, this might be quite hard. So before I start, has anyone else solved this or got a suggestion for a better solution?

Thanks

FalseVinylShrub