RE: A GNOME Bindings release set?



> > In future, we might impose some version numbering schemes, but it's
> > too late
> > for that in this release cycle.
> 
> we cannot use three-part version numbers; they are not 
> supported until 
> Perl 5.10.0, and even then we can't change because we'll break 
> compatibility with 5.8.x.  (the version numbers are actually used in 
> the code to do runtime version-checking and bootstrapping validation, 
> all of which is part of perl itself.)
> 
> instead, we use a scheme that is similar in spirit (although it does 
> not exactly match the traditional perl versioning scheme).  
> basically, 
> x.yyz, where x is the major, yy is the minor (even for stable), and z 
> is the micro, and is often omitted when 0.

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind.

Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
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