Perl client $VERSION should be numeric

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

Noted.

Version in CVS is now 1.13-pre.


On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Jamie McCarthy wrote:

> The version number for the latest Cache::Memcached is 1.0.12.  For
> the next release, it should be set to 1.13.
>
> perldoc perlmodlib:
>
>        o   Give the module a version/issue/release number.
>
>            To be fully compatible with the Exporter and
>            MakeMaker modules you should store your module's
>            version number in a non-my package variable called
>            $VERSION.  This should be a floating point number
>            with at least two digits after the decimal (i.e.,
>            hundredths, e.g, "$VERSION = "0.01"").  Don't use a
>            "1.3.2" style version.
>
> perldoc perlstyle:
>
>        The most common CPAN version numbering scheme looks like this:
>
>            1.00, 1.10, 1.11, 1.20, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32
>
>        A correct CPAN version number is a floating point number
>        with at least 2 digits after the decimal. You can test
>        whether it conforms to CPAN by using
>
>            perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -le 'print MM->parse_version(shift)' 'Foo.pm'
>
>        If you want to release a 'beta' or 'alpha' version of a
>        module but don't want CPAN.pm to list it as most recent use
>        an '_' after the regular version number followed by at
>        least 2 digits, eg. 1.20_01.
>
> perldoc Exporter:
>
>        Since the default require_version method treats the
>        $VERSION number as a simple numeric value it will regard
>        version 1.10 as lower than 1.9. For this reason it is
>        strongly recommended that you use numbers with at least two
>        decimal places, e.g., 1.09.
>
> The symptom right now is that if you have 1.0.11 or any previous
> 1.0 version of Cache::Memcached installed, CPAN will report that
> it is already up to date, and refuse to install without a "force,"
> since:
>
>        $ perl -le 'print "1.0.11" == "1.0.12"'
>        1
> --
>   Jamie McCarthy
>  http://mccarthy.vg/
>   jamie@mccarthy.vg
>
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