[rt-users] RT 3.4.4 and mod_perl1.99 - clarification

[Angelo Turetta]

Stewart Tranter wrote:
> Interesting.  I've just done a bit more debugging, adding a few lines to 
> webmux.pl.  It seems to think we have mod_perl/1.999.22.  Running an 
> "rpm -qa mod_perl" gives the result:  "mod_perl-2.0.0-0.rc5.3".  A bug 
> with this version of mod_perl perhaps?  There are definitely no other 
> mod_perl versions installed and AFAIK the FC4 was installed from 
> standard install discs.

Nothing so strange. In order to keep the version number constantly 
growing, they choose to number all prerelease versions 1.99x.x
That is, it's not that easy (from a program perspective) to order 
version strings like 2.0-b5, 2.0-rc5 and 2.0: you have to give special 
meanings to 'b', 'a', 'rc'. Much better 1.99.5 (a.k.a. beta5) < 1.999.22 
(a.k.a. rc5) < 2.0

The versioned name of the package itself has nothing to do with the 
numeric version embedded in the perl module, it's just a packaging 
parameter.

Angelo Turetta