On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Curtis Jewell <lists.perl.module->> There's absolutely nothing wrong with "v1.1". PAUSE/CPAN handle that >> just fine. It might not be the best way to do it, but once that style >> got out into the wild, the tools adapted. > > MOST of the tools have adapted, I think. They aren't all there yet, and > it isn't perfect yet (M::I, in particular, can't compare versions if you > give it a numeric version to compare against when your module is using a > v-string, which is a little clumsy.) That's why my versions are $VERSION > = version->new(0.170_004)->numify(); at the moment.
I'm sorry, are you considering M::I a real tool? >:-) Fortunately, since M::I only affects the distribution it's bundled with, it's only a restriction on distributions that use M::I. That's *not* the case for other tools, particularly CPAN and CPANPLUS. -- David
