Re: version-0.77 and You

Gisle Aas wrote:
> I would suggest that you bump the version number of version to 1.00 so 
> that becomes the recommended minimal number instead of an arbitrary 
> number like 0.77; making the recommended invocation:
> 
>    use version 1.00;  $our $VERSION = qw("v1.2.3");

You do know that the above doesn't actually do anything?  Or did you 
mean qv() instead of qw()?

> This still confuses me as I think that:
> 
>     use version 1.00;
> 
> ought to be handy way to declare your own 
> $VERSION, not about requesting a specific version of version.

That was [briefly] considered but was judged to be "too magical" because

1) There is no package global $VERSION visible in the source;

2) Module::Build and EU::MM would have to be upgraded in order to 
understand that they can't just scan the source file any more to get the 
$VERSION.

John