--As of May 31, 2015 7:44:38 PM +0300, Shlomi Fish is alleged to have said:
By all means, if this notation is undesirable, its rejection should be
made more explicit rather than I hear about it years after the fact. Note
that I happen to find '0.0.7' much more user-friendly than '0.000007' and
would like it to stay and be supported by the toolchain properly, but I
think that prohibiting it more directly would be a desirable second-best
solution.
So what should be done?
--As for the rest, it is mine.
My understanding is that older versions of Perl and several of the build
tools could not handle the three-dot versions. Modern versions can,
although some corner cases still exist. (Notably: Exporter treats version
numbers as decimal numbers:
<http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/Exporter-5.70/lib/Exporter.pm#Module_Version_Checking>,
although `version` can handle them correctly, which should mitigate that.)
Basically: Historic versions of Perl can't handle them, and even current
versions of some tools occasionally have trouble, but in general they
should be fine if you are targeting modern Perl versions. If you haven't
had trouble, it probably isn't a problem.
Daniel T. Stal
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