Just to leap in here...
> 04. Formalize allowed version number formats
>
> Proposal:
>
> Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized
> dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components). (Dagolden)
As someone who maintains a ridiculous number of CPAN packages as RPMs
in a linux distro (Fedora), I've been struggling with ideas of how to
keep our packaged versions in sync with the latest released levels on
the CPAN -- and beyond that, how to make automatic processes to do
this require less of my time/brainpower. One of the recurring
problems to this is the rather free-form approach that can be taken
with module versions and how this translates to versioning RPM knows
and understands. These two things are, ah, not always the one and the
same.
Having a regularized versioning scheme (inside the metadata at the
least) that external packaging systems can leverage would help reduce
the number of manual interventions required of packagers to maintain
CPAN packages in a binary distro (Fedora/RPM or otherwise), and in
general make dep solving significantly more reliable than it is today.
If my vote counts, I'm all for this.
Just my $0.02USD :)
-Chris
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Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
