On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:

>  vstrings are not the same as VERSION and not many people seem to be
>  using them in their modules. I'm not sure if it's attractive to add
>  more options to an already, seemingly, difficult task of just getting
>  a version into the module itself, but it might be interesting to see
>  if it works. VERSION in my estimation should be simple and
>  straightforward. Incrementing from "0.01" seems to suit most who can
>  be bothered to include it so vstring version numbers may be more
>  complexity than is really necessary.

I think that complexity isn't the reason that vstrings aren't used as
version numbers.  I tried to use vstrings in my module but xsubpp seems to
choke on them, and I didn't have time to debug the problem, so I just
switched back to q{1.00} style.

I think that vstrings are as simple as you can get, I mean what's
difficult about v1.0?

- D

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