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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    CPAN versioning (was Re: Slashdot | Help Test mod_perl 2 Release
From:       Geoffrey Young <geoff () modperlcookbook ! org>
Date:       2004-12-28 1:24:50
Message-ID: 41D0B5E2.3080608 () modperlcookbook ! org
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changing topics...


> I was tossing around the idea of a new "api version" global.  something like
> 
>   our $API_VERSION = 2.2;
> 
> and then
> 
>   $class->VERSION(2.2);

blarg, that was supposed to be

  $class->API_VERSION(2.2)

but hopefully everyone understood that :)

> 
> then CPAN (and related tools) might default to API version "1.0" for no
> $VERSION, but understand what we mean when the same module has "1.0", "1.1",
> "2.2" and "2.3" uploads on CPAN (namely that "1.1" and "2.3" become the
> dominant releases).
> 
> sure, there are issues around this, like what to do when the last upload
> Foo-Bar-0.8 with API version "1.3" while the current one is Foo-Bar-0.9 with
> API version "1.2", and it (by itself) doesn't solve the @INC issue, but...

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