Re: Take care with version numbers (eg DBD::Pg)

"David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:

> FYI
> 
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Nigel Horne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  ! DBD::Pg                2.6  2.17.1
> 
> Let's review version number math:
> 
>  2.6 = 2.600000
>  2.17.1 = 2.017001
> 
>  2.600000 > 2.017001

Looks like it should have been 2.6.0:

 2.6.0 = 2.006001
 2.17.1 = 2.017001

 2.006001 < 2.017001

Version number suck. And clearly, three-version numbers suck harder.

Best,

David
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