Re: Why are versions restricted to 999?

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we need every dotted version to have a decimal representation?  Or is it
> simply enough that they compare fine?
>
> You mention "not all parts of the toolchain support prerequisites specified
> in dotted decimal form."  That would be the rationale, but what's left that
> doesn't?

Perl itself, for one.  I refer you to
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/204/perl-version-number-puzzles/ for
your horror and amusement.

The Perl community has so horribly screwed up module version numbering
that the spec just attempts to encourage a minimum level of
consistency.  It can't solve all the problems.

-- David