version 0.85 ================================== Full version object support, with patch for bug in Perl 5.10.0 core version support. YOU SHOULD INSTALL THIS RELEASE WHEN USING VERSION OBJECTS IN PERL 5.10.0. There was a bug caused by objects serialized by YAML that will cause Perl 5.10.0 to segfault. As long as some module calls 'use version', then the replacement code will take effect and Perl will not crash. Major Changes in 0.85 - 2010-10-25 ===================================== Don't include MYMETA.yml file in distro (Module::Build should warn about this I think). Major Changes in 0.84 - 2010-10-24 ===================================== Restore public API vcmp() broken in 0.83 Major Changes in 0.83 - 2010-10-17 ===================================== Changed vverify API (David Golden). Improved heuristic for non-magical v-strings (Perl 5.6.0-5.8.0). Install in proper patch post-@INC reordering. Major Changes in 0.82 - 2010-04-13 ===================================== Still more changes to sync with Perl 5.12.0-as-released. Rewritten POD thanks to many hands, but mostly David Golden. Vastly improved Regex definitions from Zephram. Major Changes in 0.81 - 2010-02-01 ===================================== Merge in changes from bleadperl that will be part of Perl 5.12.0. Completely rewrite pure Perl code to operate exactly like the XS code, through the creation of a character-array class called charstar. Now the pure Perl code and XS code can be more easily be synchronized. Major Changes in 0.80 - 2010-01-21 ===================================== No outwardly visible changes. This release is to fix an assertion error with certain picky/older compilers. NOTE: this is not the version object code that will be part of Perl 5.12.0, which will be released shortly as 0.81. Major Changes in 0.79 - 2010-01-03 ===================================== No outwardly visible changes. This release is to match the code that will part of Perl 5.12.0, but which doesn't affect the external API of the CPAN release. Major Changes in 0.78 - 2009-10-12 ===================================== More changes to improve the non-magic v-string heuristics, this time affecting both the pure Perl and XS backends. NOTE: these fixes only matter if you are running Perl 5.6.x to 5.8.0 (inclusive). Beginning with Perl 5.8.1, v-strings are now magical and version.pm no longer has to guess. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50347 Also resolve the issue where attempting to install CPAN releases on top of core releases (e.g. 5.10.0 and 5.10.1) would not DTRT. Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49667 Major Changes in 0.7702 - 2009-09-07 ===================================== Add additional contraints to the code which tries to guess whether something is a v-string or not for Perl 5.6.0 through 5.8.0 (inclusive). Resolves: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49348 Major Changes in 0.7701 - 2009-07-28 ===================================== Special RHEL4.x/Fedora4.x Are Too Stupid to Live Release. Those distros have never updated beyond Perl 5.8.5/5.8.6 respectively. Consequently, they contain a complete broken Test::More::use_ok which doesn't load the package into the correct namespace: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48268 thus causing mysterious test failures. No version.pm code was changed at all. :( Major Changes in 0.77 - 2009-07-26 =================================== Complete POD rewrite to document common usage in version.pod and put all of the implementation details into version::Internals. Resolve a number of RT tickets: RT#48135 - Compilation failure using MS VC++ 7.0. RT#47980 - Remove need for runtime class loading in pure Perl code RT#46921 - locale and eval action at a distance. RT#45241 - mistaken regex to convert large exponential numbers to non-exponential form before scanning. Please read the POD documentation for usage/details. See the CHANGES file for full details of all changes to the module behavior. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: $ perl Build.PL $ ./Build $ ./Build test # ./Build install This release includes an optional pure Perl implementation (in case you don't have a C-compiler or if some reason you want your code to be much slower). You can test it by calling the build script as $ perl Build.PL --perl_only and it will install the Perl only version. OR To install with ExtUtils::MakeMaker: $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test # make install and correspondingly $ perl Makefile.PL --perl_only will install the Perl only version. DEPENDENCIES The same C compiler used to build Perl (or not). Module::Build 0.2611 or better. Module::Build installs fine under 5.005_03 or better, though the optional dependency Archive::Tar doesn't. If you install Module::Build without any of the optional dependencies, you can safely install version.pm. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This module can be distributed under the same terms as Perl. Copyright (C) 2004-2010 John Peacock