From: "Donald Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Matt Sergeant said:
>  >Finally, if you do:
>  >
>  >$VERSION = '2.1_0';
>  >
>  >Then CPAN treats it as a beta, and won't install it - it'll do that
> with >any
>  >version with an underscore in the distribution name (note that this
> can >be
>  >different than the actual $VERSION - the underscore rule is just for the
>  >tar.gz file name).  [:-)]
>
>    Hmmmm... then why did it not present problems with perk itself?
> 5.005_003 upgraded to 5.005_006 (or something like that) without any
> problems for me when it was necessary to do so.  Is that because the tar
> files were something like "perl-5.005.003.tar.gz" or something?

Well that's been fixed since 5.6.0, so I'm not entirely sure. Perhaps
CPAN.pm special cased perl downloads before 5.6. Also we went from 5.005_03
to 5.6.0, so I would imagine that in your particular case it didn't need any
magic.

Matt.


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