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I've released the above to CPAN to hopefully end the recent discussion
concerning version objects.  As soon as I get my perforce rights restored, I'll
sync up and produce a patch to bleadperl.

The highlighted changes are as follows:

1) Default stringification for numeric versions is the same string as was
passed to version->new(), on the principal of least surprise.  The same is true
for extended versions (except see #5).  Quoting the version object initializer
is aways the right thing to do.

2) The return value for the replacement UNIVERSAL::VERSION behaves identically
to stringification.

3) version->new() correctly duplicates version objects without a hitch.

4) version objects created with v-strings (5.6.0+) always stringify with a
leading 'v' (because there is a large range of Perl releases where we just can't
tell).  This is the last remaining exception to #1.

5) version objects have overloaded math comparisons (<=>) as well as overloaded
string comparisons (cmp); this is not new, but I wanted to emphasize that
resolving #1 meant that in the end, I didn't change this behavior.

Interested parties should download version-0.7203 from your CPAN mirror tomorrow
and test out any modules where you use version objects.

Thanks

John

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