On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Serguei Trouchelle <s...@cpan.org> wrote: > David Golden wrote: > >> I have ranted in many other forums that dotted decimal versions should >> always be expressed in "normal" form -- meaning a leading v and at >> least 3 parts (v2.17.1 or v2.6.0) to avoid confusion. > > I strongly disagree.
You are misunderstanding what I'm saying, or maybe I'm being too subtle in my cynicism. *If* someone is trying to represent a dotted decimal, they should do it in normal form. I completely agree that it's much better/safer to representing version numbers as decimals. c.f. http://tinyurl.com/versionnumbers -- David
