David Golden wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote:
Steffen Mueller wrote:
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.
I was worried that was it. That conversion should be considered, but not
enshrined in the spec as a limit.
Please see my response on the module-authors list. The issue isn't
decimal to dotted decimal, it's the reverse mapping which is done
inconsistently.
Do we need every dotted version to have a decimal representation? Or is it
simply enough that they compare fine?
You mention "not all parts of the toolchain support prerequisites specified in
dotted decimal form." That would be the rationale, but what's left that doesn't?
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