I think you're getting a little carried away with your own personal definition of what version numbers mean. There is no worldwide standard for them.

A version number of >=1.0 in a library/perl module suggests to me that the modules is sufficently tested/debugged and the interface is stable and there will be no changes made that could affect programs which use it.

The only > 1.0 projects where you can count on no future changes that might affect your program are the ones that get abandoned.

Clearly this is not the case for many of the <=1.0 version modules on CPAN, therefore they are versioned correctly as they are.

Not clear at all. Some very commonly used modules have had < 1.0 version numbers for years.

Version numbers are marketing, plain and simple. All that you can tell from them is that one version came out later than another (and you can't even tell that with products that have multiple live branches, like mod_perl.)

In reply to Re^2: A Peeve of Great Pettishness by perrin
in thread A Peeve of Great Pettishness by samizdat

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