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On 02/01/2011 02:24 PM, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>> The least harmful option would be to change base.pm, IMNSHO. The
>> next least harmful is WONTFIX. Under no circumstances should be
>> make a weird exception in version.pm for this, no matter how close
>> or distant we are from a release...
>
> I'm not yet at the point where I'm willing to take "make version.pm not
> choke on something that's been _documented behavior_ in the core since
> March, 1999" off the table.
That is, of course, your call to make. I was just adding in my opinion.
The origin of version.pm was to make some sense of the versioning
nonsense, and to whatever extent that it has succeeded, I hope we don't
add exceptions back in.
Just to make clear, base.pm has been non-compliant with version.pm since
the lax/strict code went in, which pre-dates 5.12.0 (it was introduced
in 5.11.4 see below). And if it would have come up at that time, I
_still_ would have argued that the sensible change would be to bring
base.pm up to date, rather than carve out an exceptional exception.
John
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commit 91152fc19d1c59a1213e39f74ac8a80f4a015f5e
Author: David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
Date: Wed Jan 13 21:47:30 2010 -0500
Omnibus strict and lax version parsing
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