I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but the Perl project is now using human-friendly version numbers like "5.5.1" instead of the old "5.005_01". The code still looks the same, and in particular $] is still the same, but rpm and deb versions should be changed, as Larry observes:
----- Forwarded message from Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:00:12 -0800 (PST) From: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Vromans) Cc: l-perl5-porters <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PERL] 5.005_63 RPM spec Johan Vromans writes: : filename="perl-5.005_63.spec" One of the reasons for going to a new version numbering scheme is so that RPM can have version numbers like 5.5.63 and know how to compare versions, so we should probably start using that form in the RPMs. Larry ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Fleagal. Bingo. Drooper. Snork. They're cops." //MST3K
