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cpants data on major version numbers (Score:1)
slightly off-topic, but here's a list of distribution of major version numbers of modules on CPAN (where a major version number is something like $version=~/^(\d+)\..*/:
sqlite> select count(version_major) as cnt,version_major from cpants group by version_major order by version_major;
cnt version_major
---------- -------------
4073 0
1752 1
272 2
69 3
22 4
17 5
2 6
2 8
1 11
1 19
1 96
1 98
2 101
1 800
1 804
1 1998
1 1999
1 2001
3 2002
6 2003
2 9999
1 20020902
Or, 64,17% of distributions are versioned 0.x and thus might be regarded as "beta" by some people.
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