On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
And unfortunately, the heuristic is *documented*, which means it's gone from being a heuristic to being an interface.On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:41:35AM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote:I don't see how that's possible. The last minor change to parse_version()Moreover this bug doesn't exist in MM 6.03, but does exist in 6.05 and versions prior to 6.00.
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.
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
