Some random thoughts on versions:
1.> One should not be able to install Alpha and Beta modules into the
standard library path without SPECIFICALLY indicating it (--INSTALLBETA). If
the option isn't given, then it installs the module in ./blib/ ('use blib').
2.> 'use strict' and '-w' should
At 12:48 PM 7/29/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>I've been contemplating this off and on for a while now, but the lack
>of a Grand Unified Theory of Module Versioning has always led me to
>shelve whatever thoughts I may have had to the back of my mind - or to
>/dev/null. There was a lot of p
On Monday 30 July 2001 07:07 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> FWIW, the interpreter will treat the following three things (Barring
> changes from Larry) as composing a unique identifier:
>
> Module Name
> Author
> Version
>
I originally said I thought choosing by author to be a bad choice.
On 7/29/01 12:48 PM, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> Let's just arbitrarily assume that the
> major number of the version is equivalent to that version of the API.
> (In other words, Foo 1.05 gives us a promise that it uses the same API
> as 1.02 and 1.08. Foo 2.01 would use a different (however slight
