version-0.77 and You - Part 2

2009-07-24 Thread John Peacock
OK, I finally have the version.pm POD in a form that I'm not totally ashamed to release with. There is now very little chaff in version.pod itself, and all the messy bits have been moved to version/Internals.pod. I'm pushing 0.76_06 as I write this, so if people can look at it, that would be

Re: version-0.77 and You - Part 2

2009-07-24 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, John Peacock wrote: > HOWEVER, based on a discussion started on p5p by Nicolas, I enabled a > warning if you try and use a v-string without the leading 'v' as a version > object initialization.  This is a change in behavior [that I think is long > overdue] that clar

Re: version-0.77 and You - Part 2

2009-07-24 Thread John Peacock
On 7/24/09 7:34 PM, David Golden wrote: Yes. I think so. A syntax deprecation like that shouldn't happen as part a maintenance branch. It should be deprecated in 5.12 and removed in 5.14. So version.pm should not warn until perl does. That's not my ideal outcome, since I'm a big supporter of