[Abcde-users] does musicbrainz work in 2.9.3 ???

[Alan W. Kerr]

Nope, using Ubuntu Studio 18.04LTS and is fully up-to-date.
It's *technically* still the most recent LTS... at least until 20.04 
hits the 20.04.1 point in July...

Anyway... Synaptic says, for 18.04, the most recent version of 
libwebservice-musicbrainz-perl is 0.93-1.1... which is what I have.

If a program needs a "more recent" version of a file, then the three 
most common ways to "resolve" this are:
1) the needed file is included with, and installed by, the *.tar.gz file 
(often with a slight "renaming" to keep the version "different").
2) the URL for a ppa will be noted in the README file (not likely in 
this situation).
3) a backport will be provided. *This* is what I expected since 
musicbrainz has gone to the 1.0.x version and has clearly stated that it 
is *not* backwards-compatible with any previous version.  ...so a 
backport of 1.0.x to previous versions (especially 18.04LTS) would make 
the most sense.

and a couple of version questions...
line 19 (where the error occurs) in abcde-musicbrainz-tool says:
use WebService::MusicBrainz 1.0.4;

Will 1.0.5 work or will that just issue a *different* "version mismatch" 
error?
Should I just use 1.0.4 for now?  I am planning on upgrading from 18.04 
to 20.04.1 in late July or early August (can I assume that abcde "just 
works" in 20.04?)

...and thanks for all the help with this... I've never used musicbrainz. 
  I've been using cddb (and then freedb) for lookups.  ...*but* with 
freedb shutting-down, I've been forced to use musicbrainz so I'm running 
into problems that I've never "triggered" before within abcde (which 
I've been using since, I think, version 2.4)


Alan W. Kerr          awkerr at aoc.nrao.edu          Whee!(tm)


On 6/22/20 8:52 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 05:34:19PM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
>>
>> The current version is actually 1.0.5 and is in the Fedora F32, F31 and F30
>> repositories.  For Debian, they appear to have
>> version 1.0.4 here:  https://packages.debian.org/sid/perl/
>> libwebservice-musicbrainz-perl
>>
>> Upstream is here:  https://metacpan.org/release/WebService-MusicBrainz
> 
> Nod. It sounds like Alan is on an old version of Ubuntu, from his
> mention of PPAs.
>