On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:18:53PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote: > We can use the v-string feature provided by Perl itself to normalize the > version numbers of CPAN module rpms. We always convert the legacy decimal > versions to normalized v-string, and use the v-string number as the rpm > version, since v-string is friendly with rpm and also works within the Perl > world. > > We can get a normalized v-string like this: > > Perl> require version; > 1 > Perl> version->parse(1.94_56)->normal > v1.945.600 > > So the rpm version of perl(CPAN) should be 1.945.600 , and the one of > perl(Moose) should be 1.120 . > I've alredy proposed something similar at <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl/Tips#Dot_approach>, converting all decimal digits to single-placed version components: 1.94_56Ââ 1.9.4.5.6. Provided version module deals with it too and it's provided by Perl, I think reusing Perl version tool is better. > And we can even enhance rpmbuild, so when we deal with unstable CPAN > modules, we can tell it to keep or discard the numbers after the underscore > in specfiles. Or we can think out a more sophisticated guideline for > versioning rpms of unstable CPAN modules. > My feeling of rpm maintainers is they want to do the stuff. I would like to see Perl dependencies scanner in perl package, outside of rpm. -- Petr
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