Hi Daniel, On Sun, 31 May 2015 15:59:14 -0400 Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote:
> --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. > Thanks for the insights. I indeed didn't have any major problems so far. I also don't care too much for older versions of Perl (unless someone specifically requests that I get a certain CPAN distribution of mine to work there which I'll evaluate on a case-by-case basis). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/ SGlau: Heh, you’re looking at me like I’m the only pretty girl for miles. George: Heh, that would not be an overstatement. The NSA is very far from being anything like the Israeli military. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
