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From:
Jerry D. Hedden
Date:
April 16, 2007 09:05
Subject:
Re: [PATCH 5.8.x] 'Fix' Text::Balance version number
Message ID:
1ff86f510704160905t299836a5ob0a3be6765bebff9@mail.gmail.com
Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> You should never change a module without changing its version.

Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I don't have a good answer. One option is to revert to
> 1.97, which IIRC is the last version that didn't use a
> version object.

I think that the comment you added to the file is sufficient
to document why it was changed.  In keeping with how changes
are made to blead, maybe the following would be okay:

$VERSION = '2.000000_01';
$VERSION = eval $VERSION;
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