There's a million and one opinions on this. Here's mine. I only use
the #.## format, and never use a zero for the last digit. Therefore, I
always start with 1.01, and wouldn't use something like 1.10, (i.e., I'd
go from 1.09 to 1.11). I've never had any problems with this formating,
and it
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
There's a million and one opinions on this.
One module I ran into uses to compare version numbers. Here's what I
do:
$VERSION = sprintf %d.%02d%02d, q/5.30.34/ =~ /(\d+)/g;
So in my mind there have been 34 bugfix releases to the 5.30 version, and
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:08 -0500, David Coppit wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
There's a million and one opinions on this.
There aren't that many perl modules on CPAN.
One module I ran into uses to compare version numbers. Here's what
I remember reading somewhere*
Sorry, I hit send before I finished editing.
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:42 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
something reasonable** but the debian-perl group has worked out a way to
deal with this.
[ i expect they have done so ]
I read recently on debian-perl that 30% of debian packages are perl
now.
[
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote:
I remember reading somewhere* that perl version numbers are strings and
that lexical comparison should be used.
Digging deeper into my memory, I seem to recall running into the
issue when I was implementing a Module::Install extension. There's a
module
On Feb 18, 2008 10:42 AM, Guy Hulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember reading somewhere* that perl version numbers are strings and
that lexical comparison should be used.
There are so many peculiar issues with version number comparison in
Perl modules that I would strongly encourage people
Thanks for the reference.
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:11 -0500, David Golden wrote:
simple comparison. Instead, I would recommend that people use
CPAN::Version, which is available in recent versions of CPAN.
What is the reason to prefer CPAN::Version (see below) ?
On the general topic of how
On Feb 18, 2008 11:43 AM, Guy Hulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:11 -0500, David Golden wrote:
simple comparison. Instead, I would recommend that people use
CPAN::Version, which is available in recent versions of CPAN.
What is the reason to prefer CPAN::Version (see
Hi Maurice,
Tom (CCd) is attempting to get IPC::ShareLite working on 64 bit Fedora
Core so it can be released as an FC package. He's filed a bug report
(see below) but he's anxious to move things forward as quickly as
possible because he has dependencies on IPC::ShareLite that need to be
