# from David Nicol (on module-authors) on Sunday 18 April 2010 13:14:
Once upon a time, CPAN was supposed to hold applications as well as
modules. There were so many more modules than applications that
indexing and so on tools for modules entirely eclipsed applications.
This prompted me to dust
Zefram wrote:
Michael G Schwern wrote:
(What does the 101091 part of 2.101091 mean anyway?)
Looks like it's embedding 10-109, an abbreviated ISO 8601 format for
2010-109, aka 2010-04-19. (Today is the 109th day of the year; specifying
the date in this manner is known in ISO 8601 as an
# from David Golden
# on Monday 19 April 2010 12:29:
You mention not all parts of the toolchain support prerequisites
specified in dotted decimal form. That would be the rationale, but
what's left that doesn't?
Perl itself, for one. I refer you to
I was worried that was it. That conversion should be considered,
but not enshrined in the spec as a limit.
999 revisions ought to be enough to anyone
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