Can anyone provide a definitive reference on the meaning of version 1.0 in the Perl world, especially for CPAN modules? ... along with advice on how a CPAN module should advertise that it is stable, well-tested and not experimental.

As indicated here I'm eager to update Writing Solid CPAN Modules with decent versioning advice but have left this in the too hard basket for far too long. :)

I sympathise with the OP because in the mainstream software world, I've always believed that version 1.0 indicated a stable, supported, production (not development) release. For example, from SemVer:

The simplest thing to do is start your initial development release at 0.1.0 ... If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0.

Oh, and other cool Perl versioning references you may know of that are not mentioned here are also welcome.

In reply to Re^11: Perl Contempt in My Workplace by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Perl Contempt in My Workplace by rje

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