On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 12:13  PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:41:35AM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
Moreover this bug doesn't exist in MM 6.03, but does exist in 6.05 and
versions prior to 6.00.
I don't see how that's possible. The last minor change to parse_version()
or the logic calling it was around 5.93_01. The last significant change was
before I took over (so somewhere before 5.48_04).

Anyhow, I concur with Andreas. The current heuristic stays. It might not
be smart, but at least its easy to predict.
And unfortunately, the heuristic is *documented*, which means it's gone from being a heuristic to being an interface.

Not that there were a whole lot of alternative ways to do it. I think it's a decent way of solving the problem, actually. To really solve it cleanly would require a change in the way Perl sets/gets version numbers.

-Ken



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