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

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 15:56:38 -0700, "David E. Wheeler"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Underscores should be banned from version numbers. Full stop.

In principle, and as an end-user I would wholeheartedly agree,  but the
way CPAN /and/ CPANTESTERS is currently set up, having _XX support is a
huge win.

The moment I release a module Foo-X.YY_ZZ, it is excluded from commands
that would otherwise `see' it as an upgrade, like

  $ cpan Foo

It will simply be skipped, as CPAN sees this as a developer release.

On the CPANTESTERS side however,  the testers DO pick it up and give me
feedback  on how this developer release behaves in the big wide unknown
world. I /do/ have Linux, HP-UX, AIX and a few windows/Strawberry devel
environments, but CPANTESTERS adds to those NetBSD, FreeBSD, ActivePerl
on windows, OS/X and maybe even more. That info is very nice to have.

Additionally,  most CPANTESTERS reports inform me about errors I forgot
to take out regarding not-yet installed modules (dependencies I did not
declare or debugging modules I forgot to take out).

> Best,
> 
> David

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