[Module-build-general] [PATCH] non-numeric $VERSION comparison error

[Steve P. <sp...@qu...>]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 07:32  pm, Steve Purkis wrote:

> I suppose it's worth asking this: why not use version objects?

Because they don't come standard with most (any?) versions of perl is 
one reason.


> Which works for most things.  I think it break because of how perl 
> does SV -> NV conversions [1]:
>
> 	'0.03_01' > '0.03' == false

The attached patch fixes this.  It doesn't do everything that 
version.pm does, but I imagine it can be integrated easily if need be.

-Steve