On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Adam Kennedy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/4/24 John M. Gamble <[email protected]>:
>> 2) CPAN packages are named using that number in META.yml. See above.
>
> Can someone remind me why the package naming matters again?
So a tarball name has some external meaning that doesn't require
opening it up each time to find out what it contains?
Foo-Bar-[your SHA1 here].tar.gz
vs
Foo-Bar-1.2345.tar.gz
Why do rpm/deb packages have version numbers on them? Same issue.
-- David
