version 0.7702
==================================

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 0.7702 - 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) 2004-2009 John Peacock