Re: Take care with version numbers (eg DBD::Pg)
Tim Bunce <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:47:00AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > 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. Agreed. But there's no need to use them *in modules*. The dev releases of DBI 1.612 have *distro* versions 1.611_9x (greater than 1.611 but less than 1.612) but $DBI::VERSION is 1.612. Tim.