On Jul 15, 2009, at 22:49 , John Peacock wrote:
Gisle Aas wrote:
I would suggest that you bump the version number of version to 1.00
so that becomes the recommended minimal number instead of an
arbitrary number like 0.77; making the recommended invocation:
use version 1.00; $our $VERSION = qw("v1.2.3");
You do know that the above doesn't actually do anything? Or did you
mean qv() instead of qw()?
Yeah. I did not mean to have that $ in front of our either :)
This still confuses me as I think that:
use version 1.00;
ought to be handy way to declare your own $VERSION, not about
requesting a specific version of version.
That was [briefly] considered but was judged to be "too magical"
because
1) There is no package global $VERSION visible in the source;
2) Module::Build and EU::MM would have to be upgraded in order to
understand that they can't just scan the source file any more to get
the $VERSION.
Seems like a good reason now to do this then. Perhaps it's better to
write:
our $VERSION = version->declare("v1.2.3"); use version 1.00;
then. At least then you manage to present the version number you
really care about first.
--Gisle
