On Thursday, 2002-08-01 at 18:06:29 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > 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.
It's not CPAN, it's Perl. Perl has been using decimal-fraction version numbers for a looong time. > 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. It would also break many modules on CPAN which rely on fractional version numbers. People use 2.10 and then 2.101 indicating a minor patch. > Incidentally, all hell is going to break loose when Perl 5.10 gets > released. Maybe that will force a change in CPAN.pm. Huh? How so? perl -e 'print $], "\n";' 5.006001 Larry was anticipating a long line of Perl 5 versions... (Yes, I know $] is deprecated. But $^V does not print easily. And vector version numbers are not compatible with 5.005 and earlier, so CPAN modules avoid them.) Luipe Christoph -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | I have challenged the entire ISO-9000 quality assurance team to a | | Bat-Leth contest on the holodeck. They will not concern us again. | | http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/joke/klingon.htm |
