Wes Hardaker wrote: >>>>>> "GSM" == G S Marzot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GSM> thoughts? > > Have you read our previous discussions on the subject? The current > versioning was actually proposed by me a while back. It is actually > similar to what you're proposing but a bit more extensive.
no...never saw the discussion...asked tanders...would be interested to read it. > > Also, the new goal is actually to update CPAN more frequently so CPAN > should match the latest net-snmp release. This has been met with some > level of issue though, as for example one person and I had a long > discussion on IRC (that was never resolved unfortunately) because they > didn't want the CPAN auto-update mechanisms to prompt them for an > update to a version they couldn't install (because the newer net-snmp > version wasn't there). The desire on their end was actually to remove > the SNMP modules entirely from CPAN because of this. I'm wasn't sure > that was right either, and hence the issue. And a lack of resolution. I think releasing on CPAN is still a good idea...but only for minor releases Maj.Min. and still allow perl only releases for sub-minor cases as needed. I would be good to see exactly where the incompatibilities arise and why...if its just a pive of code that compares numbers and complains...thyat seems fixable...if there are real interface incompatibilities...then I would wonder why they are happening in a sub-minor release. I think having perl tolerate some mismiatch in the sub-minor number would give the desired flexibility and perhaps address this person's concern(you mention above). > > BTW, CPAN forces a floating point version number. So though > "encouraged" it is, CPAN enforces it. > CPAN also tolerates things that look like this: 1.54_01 according to some docs i read...not that I am advocating it. -G ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
