On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:08 -0500, David Coppit wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > > > There's a million and one opinions on this.
There aren't that many perl modules on CPAN. > > One module I ran into uses "<" to compare version numbers. Here's what I remember reading somewhere* that perl version numbers are strings and that lexical comparison should be used. As far as I can tell, this is only compatible with the debian developers guide, if module authors do something reasonable** but the debian-perl group has worked out a way to deal with this. Since this is readily available and some thought has gone into it, you might start consulting: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version I read recently on debian-perl that 30% of debian packages are perl now. > I > do: > > $VERSION = sprintf "%d.%02d%02d", q/5.30.34/ =~ /(\d+)/g; * In the 'official' documentation (i.e. perldoc X). ** TMTOWDI is excluded. -- --gh
