Thanks for the reference. On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:11 -0500, David Golden wrote: > simple comparison. Instead, I would recommend that people use > CPAN::Version, which is available in recent versions of CPAN.
What is the reason to prefer CPAN::Version (see below) ? > > On the general topic of how to represent version numbers, I refer > people to this thread on Perl Monks: > > http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=417576 Update 2 in this thread appears to recommend 'version.pm' and specifically recommends reading: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01580.html The version.pm (0.74, 25 Oct 2007) module DESCRIPTION says: Overloaded version objects for all modern versions of Perl. This module implements all of the features of version objects which will be part of Perl 5.10.0. It also includes a long description of what version numbers *are*, which agrees with the Debian developers guide (list of integers, rather than strings). See: http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.74/lib/version.pod -- --gh
