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Id: 33097
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: File-MimeInfo
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Owner: pardus [...] cpan.org
Requestors: ANDK [...] cpan.org
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Bug Information
Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.14
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Sun Feb 10 23:45:54 2008 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Decreasing version number
0.14 is less than 0.9 according to ordinary floating point math. Perl has always used ordinary floating point math for version numbers. So a release of 0.14 after there has already been a 0.9 seems off the track and confuses not only perl but many other tools. Thanks,
  Mon Feb 11 05:01:30 2008 pardus [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Yes, this happened back in 2004 when I went from 0.9 to 0.10. Problem is that I did not want to release a 1.0 version since the specification on which this module is based is not yet designated 1.0 but is still being updated every once in a while. Since I already released 0.10 - 0.14 I don't think it makes sense to jump to 1.x now. Version 0.9 and older have been deleted from CPAN a long time ago, so I would assume this does not cause new problems. I agree I should have started out with 0.01 instead of 0.1 way back, but I don't see much gain changing it now. Therefore I propose to reject this ticket.
  Mon Feb 11 05:01:32 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Feb 11 05:01:33 2008 pardus [...] cpan.org - Given to PARDUS
  Mon Feb 11 16:55:54 2008 andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR [...] franz.ak.mind.de - Correspondence added
CC: ANDK [...] cpan.org
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #33097] Decreasing version number
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:54:19 +0100
To: bug-File-MimeInfo [...] rt.cpan.org
From: andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR [...] franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
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>>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:01:32 -0500, "Jaap Karssenberg via RT" <bug-File-MimeInfo@rt.cpan.org> said:
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> <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33097 >
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> Yes, this happened back in 2004 when I went from 0.9 to 0.10. Problem is > that I did not want to release a 1.0 version since the specification on > which this module is based is not yet designated 1.0 but is still being > updated every once in a while.
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> Since I already released 0.10 - 0.14 I don't think it makes sense to > jump to 1.x now. Version 0.9 and older have been deleted from CPAN a > long time ago, so I would assume this does not cause new problems.
I do not want to argue with you about it. I just wonder why you never thought about taking 0.90000001, 0.90000002 etc. Isn't there infinite room between 0.9 and 1.0? Show quoted text
> I agree I should have started out with 0.01 instead of 0.1 way back, but > I don't see much gain changing it now. Therefore I propose to reject > this ticket.
As I said, I won't argue any longer. But if you look at the page that I pointed to in the other ticket, doesn't it hurt in the eyes? Rest assured, this is my last word on the matter. Reject what needs rejecting, no problem. -- andreas
  Thu Feb 14 03:58:29 2008 pardus [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'