Steffen Mueller wrote:
Why have a limit on a simple integer, and such a low one? I did this
in the distant past with MakeMaker and was roundly, and justly,
admonished.
IIRC it's because the magic XXXXXXXX.YYY.ZZZ <-> XXXXXXXX.YYYZZZ
association is assumed all over the place.
I was worried that was it. That conversion should be considered, but not
enshrined in the spec as a limit.
As noted earlier, the spec is missing a definition about how versions compare.
Using the conversion algorithm I outlined to convert from decimal to dotted,
which appears to be what version.pm uses, there's no need for a limit.
vX.YYYY is always greater than X.anything because you can't express vX.YYYY as
a dotted version. And that's fine, there's no requirement for a one to one
mapping. So long as every decimal can be expressed as a dotted everything can
be compared.
