Re: alpha dists without the underscores

Hi David

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 10:06 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2009, at 7:03 AM, David Golden wrote:
> 
> > I think the CPAN Meta Spec
> > should be explicit on how how release status is determined (e.g.
> > whether "_" in the version number string or parsed off a comment on
> > the "$VERSION =" line) and how it is communicated (e.g. tarball name
> > or field in the Meta file).
> 
> Yes. I'd like to see a META line for the release status, and the _  
> killed off in version numbers (it's one reason why I have *never*  
> released a dev release of a module on CPAN, I hate the _).

I'm the same.

I think OP needs to start treating the *.pm files /and their meta docs/
as a single, coordinated, set of items.

So, instead of putting '_' or 'TRIAL' junk in the version info,
recognize that it's saying something about the *.pm file set, and put it
in the meta docs.

Hence my Module::Metadata::Changes, which attempts to make the Changes
(aka *) file confusion into machine-readable confusion.

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