On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, David Robins wrote: > On Wednesday February 4, 2004 17:43, David Wheeler wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2004, at 2:14 PM, David Robins wrote: > > > I'm looking for suggestions for a name for a module that allows use of > > > CVS > > > revisions as perl versions (or for the name of an existing one, but > > > I've > > > searched CPAN and perlmonks and didn't find one). It works like: > > > > It's called "version". > > > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/version/ > > > > It allows this syntax: > > > > our $VERSION = version->new(qw$Revision: 1.10 $); > > And it doesn't work for the comparisons. It'll import a CVS tag, but it still > thinks 1.2 > 1.10.
Then you probably want to coordinate with John Peacock and write version::CVSRevision, not a totally new module. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
