On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:46:01 -0600, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
> On 2008-01-15, at 07:09, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > > Perl's interpretation of 1.80 as 1.800 might not be what people > > expect, but it makes sense when "versions are just numbers that you > > <=>." > > Version numbers ARE NOT "just numbers". > > Version "numbers" are n-tuples of integers. If only! foo-bar_guh-1.23-12.18pl2a-rc0.1-1.1 probably this is only a subset of the madness people invent to make our detection rules fail miserably > They are not floating point numbers. Mapping them into floating point > numbers is hateful, evil, and rude. injecting letters, underscores, dashes, or complete pieces of proza is also not making any parsing easier > This is so bloody typical of the hateful "we're going to do > everything differently" attitude that Larry Wall infused into Perl > right from the start, to the point where Perl fans will defend the > most screwed up designs... until the next version of Perl comes along > and breaks everything and the new broken way is good and teh old > broken way is bad. Compared to Cygwin's package versioning, everything else I saw is better, including perl's and SuSE's versions -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
