v in distro name

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In my Bar.pm, I have use version 0.77 (); our $VERSION = version->declare('v0.0.1'); According to the version.pm docs, this is now recommended.

.../Local-Foo-Bar> perl Build.PL
Checking whether your kit is complete...
Looks good

Checking prerequisites...
Looks good

Creating new 'Build' script for 'Local-Foo-Bar' version 'v0.0.1'
.../Local-Foo-Bar> ./Build dist
Deleting META.yml
Creating META.yml
Creating Local-Foo-Bar-v0.0.1
Creating Local-Foo-Bar-v0.0.1.tar.gz
Deleting Local-Foo-Bar-v0.0.1
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As you can see, building a distro adds a v to the version number in the distro name. Leaving it away in the declare method does not help.

I hate this v for aesthetic reasons. It also does not play well with other version comparison tools at the perimeter or outside the CPAN ecology. I suspect I'm not the only one who encountered that problem.

My questions: Has anyone asked packagers who package CPAN distros for e.g. Linux distros about this seemingly gratuitous change/new recommended practice? How do I get rid of the v in the distro name?

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Re: v in distro name by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Aug 01, 2009 at 13:32 UTC
For your Bar.pm, you can eliminate the v something like this: `package Bar; use 5.8.8; use version 0.77; our $VERSION = version->parse('0.0.1')->stringify; print $Bar::VERSION, "\n"; 1;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: v in distro name by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2009 at 00:01 UTC
My questions: Has anyone asked packagers who package CPAN distros for e.g. Linux distros about this seemingly gratuitous change/new recommended practice? I'm not sure who those guys are, but I'm fairly certain they're not responsible :) How do I get rid of the v in the distro name? See Module::Build `my $build = Module::Build->new( dist_name => 'Foo-Bar', dist_version => '1.04', ... );` [download] or see ExtUtils::MakeMaker `WriteMakefile( DISTNAME => 'Foo-Bar', DISTVNAME => 'Foo-Bar-1.04', ... )` [download] With above parameters, both will create distdir Foo-Bar-1.04 and dist Foo-Bar-1.04.tar.gz	[reply] [d/l] [select]