Re: version-0.77 and You

On Jul 15, 2009, at 22:49 , John Peacock wrote:

> 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()?

Yeah.  I did not mean to have that $ in front of our either :)

>
>> 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.

Seems like a good reason now to do this then.  Perhaps it's better to  
write:

    our $VERSION = version->declare("v1.2.3");  use version 1.00;

then.  At least then you manage to present the version number you  
really care about first.

--Gisle