Re: New pangzero version available - going to break current one with new SDL-perl
Basically its not that complex.
Think of floats. 1.4 is less than 1.5, and 1.401 is too less than 1.5.
Same for version with more than one dot.
So, should I rerelease it as 1.4.1?
Cheers.
Am 13.03.2012 08:17, schrieb Paul Wise:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Tobias Leich wrote:
>
>> I dont get what you mean.
>> From a perl view 1.401 is 1.401000 and 1.4.1 is 1.400100 and 1.5 is
>> 1.500000.
> I found this article about version numbers in perl:
>
> http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/369/version-numbers-should-be-boring/
>
> My reaction is: wow thats a lot of complexity.
>
> Using the dotted-integer form of version numbers should be enough as
> long as they remain dotted in the tarball filename, since that is the
> main place Debian versions interact with upstream versions.
>
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