Re: Take care with version numbers (eg DBD::Pg)
Jens Rehsack <[email protected]>
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On 07/08/10 16:32, David E. Wheeler wrote: > 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 I think, the best way out would be a hard consensus and CPAN reindex. This might break some things in the first way - but my experience as Perl module packager for pkgsrc packaging system is, that most authors do not react until things fail (and many of them do not react then). But this will touch the sacred cow of downward compatibility ... We can't have both. Jens