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Re: Underscores in version numbers?

From:

Rafael Garcia-Suarez

Date:

April 5, 2006 05:51

Subject:

Re: Underscores in version numbers?

Message ID:

b77c1dce0604050551i106fef0bk59b3c0b145bba557@mail.gmail.com

On 05/04/06, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a good reason to put these underscores into the version
> >> numbers?
> >
> > Yes, it prevents CPAN/CPANPLUS from upgrading some poor schmuck
> > running 5.6. to the most recent Perl with the module at a higher
> > version (if I remember correctly).
>
> Of course the CPAN indexer could just be taught to ignore modules
> included in core Perl distributions.

IIRC it already does : that's the role of the META.yml included in
perl's tarball.

on the other hand that '_' convention is also used by search.cpan.org
to know which modules are alpha.

If it turns out to be unneccessary, I'd be happy to drop it for dual
lived core modules.

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