Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau gcott...@gmail.com wrote: Kartik and friends rewrote SDL_perl (a Perl module with SDL bindings) using a different API. Then they ported my Perl-based game to using that new Perl module, and to be CPAN-friendly. My game previous versions were

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread Kartik Thakore
Kartik Thakore On 2010-08-05, at 7:07 AM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau gcott...@gmail.com wrote: Kartik and friends rewrote SDL_perl (a Perl module with SDL bindings) using a different API. Then they ported my Perl-based game to

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote: thia dist_name = in M::B correct? Yes. Though maybe I should just implement a feature to add '-TRIAL', since I'll need that anyway for CPAN Meta 2 support. (Dist::Zilla already supports -TRIAL). -- David

Re: -TRIAL dists (was: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1)

2010-08-05 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Golden # on Thursday 05 August 2010 08:55: Though maybe I should just implement a feature to add '-TRIAL', since I'll need that anyway for CPAN Meta 2 support.  (Dist::Zilla already supports -TRIAL). Does search.cpan.org understand -TRIAL now? Last I looked, it was properly

Re: -TRIAL dists (was: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1)

2010-08-05 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: Does search.cpan.org understand -TRIAL now?  Last I looked, it was properly handled (i.e. not indexed) by PAUSE, but would leak through in a few other places where it appears that an assumption was being made without

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:02 AM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote: How do we make this work? I get a error doing this. I think you need to be a lot more specific about this.  I'm beginning to suspect an XY

Re: -TRIAL dists (was: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1)

2010-08-05 Thread Kartik Thakore
So how can we force the VERSION for the non CPAN release? Kartik Thakore On 2010-08-05, at 3:24 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: Does search.cpan.org understand -TRIAL now? Last I looked, it was properly

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread David Nicol
It appears that your use case -- you want to publish the beta version on CPAN without having the non-beta-testers get it too -- is not supported by xdg's essay. I see two possible approaches: 1: leapfrogging. Release the beta versions with version numbers that are less than the latest release

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread Kartik Thakore
Kartik Thakore On 2010-08-05, at 5:11 PM, David Nicol davidni...@gmail.com wrote: It appears that your use case -- you want to publish the beta version on CPAN without having the non-beta-testers get it too -- is not supported by xdg's essay. I dont know where you are getting this from.

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-05 Thread Kartik Thakore
With David's (xdg) help we have come up with a simple solution (which should have been more obvious). http://github.com/kthakore/frozen-bubble/blob/e5fe8243e67ca552c02099db8f5a274c6171e1b1/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm Please give that a run. The 'display' version is RELEASE_VERSION. Regards,

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-04 Thread Kartik Thakore
Hello, Is it possible to have 2.2.1beta1 VERSION, for a perl module? Kartik Thakore On 2010-08-04, at 2:21 PM, Guillaume Cottenceau gcott...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote: I dont think you can have that version. What if

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-04 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Guillaume Cottenceau gcott...@gmail.com wrote: Hum. This is for an application (a game), not a module, and I want it to be clearly labelled as a beta release. So fine with There are no standard conventions for alphanumerics, and you just make life hard for the

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-04 Thread Todd Rinaldo
CPAN recognizes _ in the version variable as indicating a development version. This is easy if you're only releasing regular floating point versions i.e. 2.2 becomes 2.2_01. Does this work? I'm not clear on the validity of _ with 2 decimal versions. our $VERSION = '2.2.1_01'; On Aug 4, 2010,

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-04 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:13 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have 2.2.1beta1 VERSION, for a perl module? It's not advisable. C.f.

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-04 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Aug 4, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:13 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have 2.2.1beta1 VERSION, for a perl module? It's not

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-04 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Kartik Thakore thakore.kar...@gmail.com wrote: How do we make this work? I get a error doing this. I think you need to be a lot more specific about this. I'm beginning to suspect an XY problem. Walk us through -- step by step -- what you're trying to

Re: Frozen Bubble 2.2.1

2010-08-04 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Guillaume Cottenceau # on Wednesday 04 August 2010 13:12: but I don't see the big problem for machines and I don't know how to say hey this is beta only with numbers; especially if 5.005_03 is equivalent to 5.5.30, I don't see how this could be considered to mark it beta/dev The first