On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:03:42AM -0500, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>  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?

Well, for one thing, it doesn't work in perl5.005.  If my module didn't
really need perl5.6, I wouldn't want to add an arbitrary dependency just to
be able to use version strings.  But I think they're more trouble than
they're worth anyway.

Ronald