On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:26:29 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: Hi Johan
> I know I'm not entitled to say this, and it will make me even more > unpopular than I already am, but nevertheless I'm not going to > remain silent. I fully support your speaking up. > I don't know all the inner details, but this M::B and version > dancing gives me the strong impression that something is terribly > wrong here at a fundamental design level. Clearly something's wrong, but it may not be anything big, even though it's a sort of show-stopper. > Dealing with version numbers is not quite trivial, but should be > fairly straightforward to deal with. I cannot (and for the time > being I refuse to) believe that it takes 651 releases (652 at the > time I write this) to get it right. Right! > I see that version.pm implements two flavours, a native perl > version and XS. Under the assumption that both versions are > functionally equal, I suggest to move the XS implementation to a > separate module and have version.pm be a single, straightforward > perl module that is easy to build, maintain, and to copy and paste > into a distribution if necessary. I cannot imagine that the gain in Exactly. Ship a pure-Perl version immediately and stuff around with an XS version off-line, so to speak. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaassse! > efficiency is noticable for anything but an application that > processes thousands of version numbers, and in that case the Right! Everybody take a deep breath, and go back to basics! -- Cheers Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22/07/2006 http://savage.net.au/index.html Let the record show: Microsoft is not an Australian company
