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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to step this discussion back a bit.
>
> The report https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65284 claims that
> this problem starts in 5.13. That seems like it shouldn't be the case
> given what's being described and that it should actually have started
> failing before 5.12.
>
> "We broke this last year, before the previous stable release and only
> just noticed" is different than "We broke this this year and, knowing
> thiat, it's a showstopper for the next stable release."
>
> Before we continue to argue about which fix is the least harmful, let's
> characterize the problem.
Moreover, as far back as 5.10.0, UNIVERSAL::VERSION ignores "-1, ..."
and treats it as "0". (Only in 5.12 did it become fatal.)
$ perl5100 -we 'package Foo; sub foo{}; package Bar; use base
"Foo"; print "<".Foo->VERSION.">\n"'
Version string '-1, set by base.pm' contains invalid data; ignoring:
'-1, set by base.pm' at -e line 1.
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-- David
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