On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, David Dyck wrote:
>
> I didn't see my original email show up in the datetime archives though I
> tried twice, so I'll summarize some of the context
>
> I had posted a question that was triggered by CPAN's interpretation
> of version numbers in Date::ICal.
>
> Recently I installed the Date::ICal module, and now
> CPAN::Shell->r reports that the latest revision of
> Date::ICal::Duration is 1.6 that I believe
> is really older that the 1.10 that I have installed.
>
> Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file
> Date::ICal::Duration 1.10 1.6 R/RB/RBOW/Date-ICal-1.61.tar.gz
>
> The installed Date::ICal::Duration specifies it's version as:
> $VERSION = (qw'$Revision: 1.10 $')[1];
>
> One example that is used in some of the perl distribution to format
> Revision numbers uses sprintf like this:
> $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.6 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/);
Well, yes, we could do that, but it's a little late now. I try to
release 1.10 as the first version of most modules for this very reason,
but I don't usually mess with it for modules, like this one, that are
not the main module in the distribution. I see from your comments here
that it is perhaps something that I should think about more.
Yes, we could bump the next version up to 1.61. I'll mention this to the
rest of the development team.
Thanks for the note.
>
>
>
> On 15 Jan 2002 at 07:29 +0100, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...:
>
> > From: Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: David Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: 15 Jan 2002 07:29:56 +0100
> > Subject: Re: Version numbers in cpan index databases inconsistent with
> > Date::ICal
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > >>>>> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:20:41 -0800 (PST), David Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > > Is it up to the module authors to re-start their version numbers
> > > at version 2.10 when this inconsistency is detected?
> >
> > Yes. More precisely, they could start over around 1.90 or 1.900, etc.
> >
> > > Are the sources for mldistwatch and other CPAN tools available?
> >
> > No, some are probably too sensitive.
> >
> > > Where would the best place to add an exception list file to
> > > educate CPAN that the version numbers of some modules
> > > are 'RCS/CVS' based so they don't append a trailing zero?
> >
> > There are more version numbering schemes in use than one could
> > reasonably support, somewhere you need to draw the line. For many
> > years now $VERSION has been treated as floating point number.
> >
> > > All thoughs and discussions appreciated
> >
> > perlmodlib.pod has been around for long, bleadperl also has
> > perlmodstyle.pod. John Peacock is working very hard on getting
> > v-string support for $VERSION in shape, *maybe* we can support these
> > beasts fully some day.
> >
> > --
> > andreas
> >
>
>
>
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