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Richard Proctor  
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 More options Apr 26 2004, 10:20 am
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From: Rich...@waveney.org (Richard Proctor)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:20:12 +0000 (GMT)
Local: Mon, Apr 26 2004 10:20 am
Subject: A12 Versioning
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I am not happy about the versioning proposal.

While A12 listed many properties that could apply to a a module such as
version, subject, author etc,  the versioning declaration

  class Dog-1.2.1-cpan:JRANDOM;

leaves me a little cold.

Issues:

1) Why does this only use Version and Author?  Suppose there are versions
for different oses or that use other particular libraries that are wanted
or not?

2) Shouldn't all these properties just be in a hash against the module
rather than some having special significance?  Others can then be simply
added as appropriate.

3) Why is the information positional rather than by keyword property?
  use Dog :version«1.2.1» :author«JRANDOM» :os«cpm»;

4) What are the expected rules for versioning?  While the public CPAN has
one set of versioning, other projects have weird versioning rules, with
letters and numbers.  What would work and why?

These are not fully thought through answers, but illustrate some thoughts
or the matter.

Richard

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