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From:
David Golden
Date:
July 15, 2009 14:40
Subject:
Re: version-0.77 and You
Message ID:
5d4beb40907151439t618376d1l1d703ce166b2a866@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Gisle Aas<gisle@activestate.com> wrote:
> I think the term "dotted-decimal" is pretty confusing, especially when what
> you contrast that with is "decimal version numbers" (which includes a dot).
> I suggest you call it "integers separated by dots" or "dotted-integers" for
> short.
+1 for "dotted-integers"
>I also think it would be a good idea to define early what this means instead of just assuming that's understood.
I normally would agree, but the definitions are a bit complicated. I
intentionally left stuff for later because I didn't want people to
stop reading before they got to the big "DONT SCREW THIS UP" parts.
> In the section about declaring versions in the traditional way (using
> decimal $VERSION) I suggest it's presented in the string form:
> our $VERSION = "1.02";
> This is the recommended form as you don't get surprises when the version
> number turns into "1.10".
Good catch! That's a great suggestion. I debated getting into the
alphas/eval stuff, but decided to leave it out of version.pm
documentation. It'll be in my blog article I'm working on, though.
David
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