Michael G Schwern wrote:
Elliot just alerted me to this bit of the v2 spec.
http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Meta-2.101091/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm#Version_Formats
Dotted-integer versions
"All components after the first are restricted to the range 0 to 999."
Why have a limit on a simple integer, and such a low one? I did this in
the distant past with MakeMaker and was roundly, and justly, admonished.
IIRC it's because the magic XXXXXXXX.YYY.ZZZ <-> XXXXXXXX.YYYZZZ
association is assumed all over the place.
Note that XXXXX can be way beyond 999.
Cheers,
Steffen
