On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:49 PM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk>wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:03:59PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: > > > I am sending this as a heads-up because sometimes really twitchy things > are > > really twichy about version numbers, and anything getting really twitchy > about > > Test::Builder makes me really twitchy. > > Thankyou for being careful, but I don't think you've got anything to > worry about. What makes things twitchy is modules changing from using > numbers to using anything else for their versions, such as v1.2 or > 1.2.3, or vice versa. > That's not entirely true. Decreasing the digits of a version is also a known problematic behavior in many packaging systems. E.g. in RPM, 0.40 < 0.3600. I think increasing the digits is safe, but shouldn't be done accidentally because you can't really go back for the previously mentioned reason (unless you do a major version bump). Leon
