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Re: [rt.cpan.org #70622] Versions Disappear

From:
David E. Wheeler
Date:
September 8, 2011 13:11
Subject:
Re: [rt.cpan.org #70622] Versions Disappear
Message ID:
C2F211AC-FEA4-4518-BD1A-92208E767CA4@kineticode.com
On Sep 8, 2011, at 1:10 PM, David Golden wrote:

> Flip the question around.  Why do you need to get the version for a
> package and do you really need the version or do you need to do an
> operation on the version that could be encapsulated by something else?

I'm outputting the version in the "generated by" meta header of HTML. I do something similar for the PGXN API, where a header identifies the version.

So I just want a string. And the original is a vstring.

Best,

David




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