Re: CPAN authors, clean up your directories

[Abigail-II]

Frankly, I consider this a bug in CPAN. The spirit of Perl is to have lots of DWIM and to do the "natural" thing. Considering 10 to be less than 9 isn't natural, nor very DWIM. Version numbers aren't reals. I think that they are working on it in 5.9. (And it's better fixed before 5.10 comes out, otherwise that will be consider older than 5.6 or 5.8).

Abigail

[John M. Dlugosz]

Not only that, but Perl itself want's the 3-digit convention. That is, write "5.010" for version 5 subversion 10. That's used in the built-in version comparisons when translating between floating-point numbers and the newer "v-string" format.