David Wheeler wrote: > On Aug 1, 2006, at 08:00, Julian Mehnle wrote: > > I, too, think the former, because it's how version numbers on CPAN > > should > > look. > > But as users start to use version.pm for their modules, and as they > start to use Perl 5.10, that's not how they'll look. They'll look > like the latter, v0.61.129. Whether or not that should be the case is > another matter.
By the principle of least surprise, the CPAN indexer should probably accept both, but convert the v form to the non-v form. I have no idea how to influence the CPAN indexer (and the other cpan.org parts), though.
pgpnyxAcekHNn.pgp
Description: PGP signature
