On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:05:31AM -0600, Chris Josephes wrote: > Version numbering is an authorship issue. If I took over module Widget > from author XYZ, I'd probably use higher version numbers than author X > used to signify a newer release. To be sure, I'd also include POD > documentation identifying my version of Widget to be a replacement for the > version from author XYZ.
If I'm looking for a module to do a job, I use search.cpan, and check by name; then, for likely candidates, I check out the README. I don't have time to read the POD too; I've got a job to do. Version numbering works great for linear systems, which generally occur only with single authorship. If you do your own version of Term::ProgressBar, and call it 3.00, and someone else does too, they will probably call it... 3.00. Boom! Mx.
