On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi All. > > ... when people tell me that some feature is in Perl from version 5.11.3. > or maybe, in case of modules, 2.04_07 > I'm sorry, I only think in release versions. how does that map to a "real" > version? > > this is just an annoying show-off. > First of all, relax. Breath. Calm down. :) The purpose of development versions is that they help with gradual changes and upgrades and finger-grained testing and quality assurance before major releases. Often times people refer to the development version that introduced a change because the stable hasn't gone out, or because they worked very closely with the project and thus associate a feature with the time it went out and the development release that went with it. Also, it's rare, but sometimes development releases actually go out as part of a major stable release. Some Perl releases went out with development releases of modules, which prompted a thread on p5p asking to stop doing that after it messed up cpanminus. Since the underscore is just a separator, 2.04_07 means 2.0407. The next version up (say, 2.05) would be the matching stable release. It shouldn't be complicated, especially for you. S.
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