Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:57:46PM +0200, Andreas J Koenig wrote: > > > And it should probably express the information by file, not by module. > > > Things other than modules have versions, too. The PAUSE indexer may not > > > care but others might. > > > > Pardon? > > Just thinking ahead. Maybe someone wants to attach a version to > bin/foo or something.c. Things PAUSE doesn't index or check the > version on but other tools might, such as RPM and dpkg.
RPM usually doesn't care about perl module versions. It computes (or tries to) the dependencies of a given perl module, but doesn't try to assign a minimal version number to them. That means that the "requires" tag of the META.yml could be used for that. Hey, you just give me this nice idea :)
