LPM: MakeMaker and version numbers

[Rich Bowen]

On Monday, someone asked what the limitations were on the version
numbers used when setting $VERSION in a module. I was tinkering with
that this morning, and observed the following. When I set $VERSION to 

$VERSION = 0.001.001.03;

the file that was generated by 'make dist' was

testing-0.00113.tar.gz

So it appears that after the first decimal point, all others just get
dropped by some rule or another. I'm sure that this is specified in the
documentation for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, and it would have been easier to
just look there, but I was messing with it anyway, so I thought I'd try
that.

Rich
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