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Postings from January 2004
John Peacock wrote:
> I've already got most of the design and coding done for a module I am
> calling version::Limit (version::Incompatibility is too long to type ;~)
> based on my version module. I need to finish the tests and complete the
> documentation.
And here is the module:
version-Limit-0.01.tar.gz
has entered CPAN as
file: $CPAN/authors/id/J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-Limit-0.01.tar.gz
size: 3979 bytes
md5: 388231caae207c66854abae707041216
To quote from the POD:
> DESCRIPTION
> In a mature, highly structured development environment, it is sometimes
> desireable to exert a more fine-grained versioning model than that per-
> mitted by the default behavior. With the standard Perl version model,
> it is only possible to establish a maximum version (the most recent)
> for a given module. However, this precludes changing the provided
> interface, or specifically excluding certain versions (because of
> bugs). Using this module makes both of those things possible.
I realize that I didn't update the README file, and I am going to have to
quickly release 0.02, so I am going to hunt for some new features or tests to
justify another release so quickly... :o
John
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