Thanks for the replies. I'll bump the version to 1000.x and make the using modules require that.

@hippo - the reason you can't find the affected versions on CPAN is that I deleted them (via pause). Anyway CPAN *indexed* the releases correctly, i.e. as 3.024 was indexed as 3.024. However once any version with the extra $VERSION declaration is installed on a cpan-testers machine, the test machinery (or maybe cpanm) thinks it has version 999.999 and so won't update it.

For example, see http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/b4581f16-132e-11ee-8887-54486e8775ea

The test fails because "Spreadsheet::Edit::IO version 3.03 required--this is only version 3.022". This should not happen because version '3.030' is a dependency listed in META.yml and so that version (or later) should have been installed. The explanation becomes clear looking further down where it says: 

Prerequisite modules loaded:
requires:

    Module                    Need     Have    
    ------------------------- -------- --------
    Algorithm::Diff           0        1.201   
    ...
    Spreadsheet::Edit         3.025    999.999 
    Spreadsheet::Edit::IO     3.030    999.999 <****
The test machine installed v3.022 previously, but now it thinks it has v999.999.

In reply to Re^2: Is VERSION > 999 allowed? by jimav
in thread Is VERSION > 999 allowed? by jimav

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