On 14 September 2015 at 20:01, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > We could fix this in a future EAPI such that version components would > not be split when matching. So =1.3* would not match 1.30 any more > because the 30 could only be matched as a whole. > > OTOH, I am not aware of any problems caused by the current behaviour. > Although I agree that it isn't logical
There's a fringe use here which becomes more obvious with date-suffixed versions like 5.20150602 =5.2015* would be a legitimate and semi-useful condition for applying a mask for use flags etc. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
