Re: Dev version numbers, warnings, XS and MakeMaker dont play nicely together.

[email protected] (John Peacock)
Newsgroups perl.qa,perl.perl5.porters,perl.makemaker
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zefram wrote:
> demerphq wrote:
>> $VERSION= "1.23_01";
> 
> I've not seen that form, but
> 
> 	$VERSION = 1.23_01;
> 
> which of course doesn't put the underscore in the string value.  This
> still delimits the subrevision portion, but without forcing anything
> else to handle the delimiter.

Plus it defeats the original purpose of having the package name created by
EU::MM or M::B display an underscore (and hence giving the CPAN indexer the
chance to not index this file as "latest".

John
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