I am not happy about the versioning proposal. While A12 listed many properties that could apply to a a module such as version, subject, author etc, the versioning declaration
class Dog-1.2.1-cpan:JRANDOM; leaves me a little cold. Issues: 1) Why does this only use Version and Author? Suppose there are versions for different oses or that use other particular libraries that are wanted or not? 2) Shouldn't all these properties just be in a hash against the module rather than some having special significance? Others can then be simply added as appropriate. 3) Why is the information positional rather than by keyword property? use Dog :version«1.2.1» :author«JRANDOM» :os«cpm»; 4) What are the expected rules for versioning? While the public CPAN has one set of versioning, other projects have weird versioning rules, with letters and numbers. What would work and why? These are not fully thought through answers, but illustrate some thoughts or the matter. Richard -- Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.waveney.org Telecoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.WaveneyConsulting.com Web services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wavwebs.com Independent Telecomms Specialist, ATM expert, Web Analyst & Services
