Re: This Week on perl5-porters (12-18 April 2004)

Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:

> More on version strings
>   David Dyck notices that the current version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker in
>   bleadperl is 6.21_02, which is parsed as 6.021002; and this causes
>   problems with modules that require a version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker
>   greater than or equal to 6.03. John Peacock explains that the underbar
>   is treated, for version parsing purposes, as a dot; although people
>   apparently expect it to be parsed more like a floating point version
>   number.
> 

I would just add that the default behavior was changed here:

> r8465 (orig r18825):  rgs@valis | 2004-04-15T05:16:30.258006Z
> 
> Change 22692 by rgs@valis on 2004/04/14 07:26:04
> 
>         Subject: [PATCH]'s to bring bleadperl up to version-0.39
>         From: John Peacock <[email protected]>
>         Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:51:31 -0400
>         Message-ID: <[email protected]>

so that alpha versions (i.e. with underscores) are now parsed as numbers, so the 
problem has been resolved...

John

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