Dave Rolsky wrote: > It can, but I'm not sure what to update it to. Frankly, I think CPAN is > more at fault here given that _many_ people use CVS for this sort of stuff > and this quite normal when using CVS.
This is a common complaint about CPAN.pm, but it's kept this way so far because of performance issues with doing fancier version parsing. I would suggest following David Wheeler's advice and setting version manually, so that you can just make 1.69 or something. Incidentally, all hell is going to break loose when Perl 5.10 gets released. Maybe that will force a change in CPAN.pm. - Perrin
