use Perl

• Class::DBI has a solution (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981)

  You could always do what Class::DBI [cpan.org] does:

  use version; $VERSION = qv('3.0.8');

  This is slightly ugly, but will work.

  -Dom
  • Re:Class::DBI has a solution (Score:1)

    by jk2addict (4946)

    Actually, it doesn't. I believe Matt Trout was cursing the virtues of the 3 part number when CPAN/CPANPLUS read the one of the package gz files and the three part versions were listed as 3.0; making upgrading to a newer verison broken. Ahh...here.. ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz [cpan.org]

    Class::DBI                          3.0  T/TM/TMTM/Class-DBI-3.0.1.tar.gz

    That's from the current file:

    09/26/05 07:14AM 
• CPAN Indexer (Score:1)

  by kane (2600)

  The 'old' CPAN indexer treated a version number like x.y.z as x.y, effectively chopping off the 'z'... so z and z+1 or for that matter z-1 all ended up as the same version in the indexes, and would be perpetually marked as 'up to date' until the minor version (y) got upped.

  Andreas is working on a change to the indexer that will use version.pm to translate x.y.z to a float that can be , but it's not there yet. Until then, I agree with the poster -- do not use x.y.z versions unless you *absolutely* must,