On Wed, 2008-26-03 at 11:36 -0400, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
> Is there anything else that should be included?
Document any assumptions about Version ordering ?
There have been discussions about this both on debian-perl (debian) and
on module-authors (perl) in the past few weeks/months.
The current specification is in perlmodlib (at the end):
Guidelines for Module Creation
o Give the module a version/issue/release number.
This should be a floating point number with at least two digits
after the decimal (i.e., hundredths, e.g, "$VERSION = "0.01"").
Don't use a "1.3.2" style version.
[5.8.8 but 5.10.0 is the same, iirc]
This does not seem to be followed, in practice, and there are at least
two ways to solve the problem in software: version.pm is supposed to be
the standard post 5.10 but CPAN::Version was recommended on this list.
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