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Id: 40952
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Combine

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Owner: Anders.Ardo [...] it.lth.se
Requestors: ANDK [...] cpan.org
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in:
  • 3.10
  • 3.11
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Decreasing version number
I'm sorry that I have to bring you the bad news that, in perl, version numbers that look like floating point numbers are treated as floating point numbers. This means that 3.10 and 3.11 are lower than 3.8 or 3.9. Please fix. Lots of expecations are broken by your version numbering the worst being that if a user has written use Combine 3.8; and then upgrades to 3.11, perl will refuse to load 3.11 because it considers it too old. You may be interested in reading the version.pm manpage (although it is not well written). Thanks,
Fixed in version 4.001