On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Scott R. Godin wrote:
> I too had a hard time believing how some of the internal versioning is
> done. crazy regex and substr reductions of long version strings
> instead of a simple package::VERSION = nn.nn.nn;
> *bemused headscratching*
I'm sure a good percentage of that is done so that people can use the
version number from cvs or (insert your favorite SCM here).
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