Re: DWIM inc bundling design discussion (LONG)
Ron Savage <[email protected]>
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Hi David On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 22:10 -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Ron Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > > o Development releases: Can you guarantee (nothing personal :-) we won't > > have another fiasco a la Data::Dumper (I think it was) a few years ago, > > which seemed to have been officially released with a dev version number > > (1.1_21 or some such), which, being non-numeric, caused other modules to > > fail tests. > > I'm not sure I follow what your concern is. My concern is authors choosing to include a dev version of module, which is in conflict with my policy of - as far as humanly possible - of never installing a dev version. Simple! Now what happens when they do that, and the install succeeds, but when I use their module with my non-dev - and presumably older - version, their module does not work. E.g. is has an incompatible API. Or is this impossible, because I misunderstood what's going on? Pretty please - tell me I'm raving (again :-). -- Ron Savage [email protected] http://savage.net.au/index.html