Re: "legal" distribution names
[email protected] (David Golden)
| Newsgroups | perl.cpan.workers |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:17 PM, David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Wilhelm wrote: >> from David Cantrell >> on Friday 05 February 2010 11:34: >>> I just had a bug reported for CPANdeps which only showed up when >>> someone pointed it at A/AU/AUTHOR/Foo-Bar-Baz-v1.2.3.tar.gz. Is the >>> use of a v-string there kosher? >> I sure hope so (after years of use.) I thought the v was necessary >> even. > > It's certainly not needed. eg, all of these exist and are properly indexed: > > D/DM/DMUEY/Sub-Todo-0.0.3.tar.gz > D/DM/DMUEY/Digest-MD5-File-0.07.tar.gz > D/DM/DMUEY/XML-Atom-App-v0.0.5.tar.gz > > Approx 4.5% of distributions use a three-part version, but only about 1% > also include a v in the version. We're trying to break people of the habit of dotted-decimal without a leading "v". -- David