If a user elects to use a 3-part version, it comes with a caveat that you can't depend on it via a 'use PKG VERSION'
statement on older perls ( at least 5.8 is a known failure for this )
Id expect that a package declaring a version stanza like this:
{
$Test::File::ShareDir::VERSION = '0.3.0';
}
Would come with the implicit requirement of increasing the dependency to 5.10.0 or higher ( though the exact version required I don't know )
I hope to propose a patch for this at some stage and work out the appropriate perl version requirement, but this bug is a standin for
that in the meantime in the event somebody is more equipped to do this than I am.
Yes, I do understand there are still many places in the toolchain 3-part versions don't work, and there are many heated debates over
versioning semantics, but I hope we can at least get 3-part versions working on modern enough perls to be used respectably in the possible future
that 5.8 finally bites it.
