Re: version-0.77 and You - Part 2

On 7/24/09 7:34 PM, David Golden wrote:
> Yes.  I think so.
>
> A syntax deprecation like that shouldn't happen as part a maintenance branch.
>
> It should be deprecated in 5.12 and removed in 5.14.
>
> So version.pm should not warn until perl does.  That's not my ideal
> outcome, since I'm a big supporter of leading-v for a version tuple,
> but I think it's the appropriate way to handle it.
>    
Yes and no.  There is a difference between warning about all v-strings 
(which is what Nicolas was talking about) and warning about v-strings 
used to initialize version objects (which is what I actually 
implemented).  I agree that the global warning about v-strings is 
probably something that needs more warning (though we've documented 
since 5.8.1 that v-strings will go away some time), but I think we could 
still add the warning now for version.pm only...

John