Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> > If that's the case then I wonder why `r` ("reinstall
> > recommendations") in `cpan` on my system (CPAN.pm 1.76_02, Perl
> > 5.8.8) does NOT list Mail::SPF as being out of date, even though I
> > have the exact same version of Mail::SPF installed as the
> > complainant (2.004), and my CPAN.pm is even older than his. Has
> > CPAN.pm's version comparison behavior changed since 1.76_02?
>
> It has changed significantly between 1.7x and 1.8x. In 1.8x it started
> to treat multidot version strings as such.
>
> The test 10version.t in the CPAN.pm distro compares how version.pm,
> Sort::Versions, Perl::Version, and CPAN::Version behave in comparison.
> I've just added two tests for the Mail::SPF case.So does that mean that CPAN 1.9101's behavior (treating v2.004 and 2.004000 as different) is correct and 1.7602's (apparently treating them as equivalent) isn't? I'm still wondering where the fault lies and what I should do to make the Mail::SPF distribution's version numbers (in META.yml, *.pm, etc.) work with older (1.7602) and newer (1.9101) versions of CPAN alike (optionally with newer ones only if that's a conflict). What options do I have? Julian.
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