# from David Golden
# on Monday 19 April 2010 12:29:
>> 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?
>
>Perl itself, for one. I refer you to
>http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/204/perl-version-number-puzzles/ for
>your horror and amusement.
Did that demonstrate a case where you must convert from float to
multi-dotted and back, but I just missed it?
>The Perl community has so horribly screwed up module version numbering
...mostly by trying to treat them as a float, IMO.
>that the spec just attempts to encourage a minimum level of
>consistency. It can't solve all the problems.
The spec and the tools are different things. The tools are broken and
buggy junk which nobody has upgraded in 10 years and thus they won't be
impacted by this or any future spec.
>> I was worried that was it. That conversion should be considered,
>> but not enshrined in the spec as a limit.
+1 +999
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