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

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
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Tim Bunce wrote:
> 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.

That sounds slightly dangerous.

Doesn't that mean
  perl -MDBI -e 'print $DBI::VERSION'
cannot indicate if you've got a dev version or a final release?

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