# from Jan Dubois
# on Monday 20 April 2009 16:05:
>On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> Except that we have to somehow have a single, definitive indicator
>> to take the place of the underscore.
>
>There is one reason I *do* like the underscore to indicate
> non-production releases: the information is retained in the installed
> module.
> ...
> I hope any "new" way to designate
> developer releases will leave some kind of mark both in the
> distribution filename and in the installed module tree.
That's a good point. The incompatibility between perl and version.pm on
handling e.g. v1.2.3_4 is trouble though (and I would guess that it is
permanent.)
But perhaps some sort of TRIAL marker (rather than a convention in the
version number) would be clearer anyway?
--Eric
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