Oh wait, you're right. I misread.
2009/4/28 Ken Williams <kena...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Adam Kennedy > <adamkennedybac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/4/23 Zefram <zef...@fysh.org>: >>> Why shouldn't this situation be an error, and die because "1.06" can't >>> be compared with "v1.7.0"? >> >> Because that would make half of CPAN incompatible with the other half of >> CPAN. > > No it wouldn't, it would only make it difficult for an author to > switch in mid-stream from one style of version numbers to another > style. Which *ought* to be difficult, because it's a bad idea. > > Also, it doesn't have to be so draconian. 1.06 can't be compared with > v1.7.0, but either can be compared with 2.x, no matter what the > interpretation after the dot is. So if a user wants to switch their > version style they just bump the major version. > > -Ken >
