Why is this module needed?

[bessarabov]

I'm very sorry for asking such rude question but I don't understand the purpose of this module.

I understand what semantic version is and I want to use this verions scheme in my Perl modules, but I don't understand why I nee to use your special module to work with semantic versions in Perl modules.

I've done several experiments and I haven't found any problems if I just write our$VERSION = '0.0.1';` in pm file.

I've also tried to use Dist::Zilla, and it also words with semantic versions. I've written version = 0.0.1 in dist.ini and everything worked fine.

Can you please explain why work with semantic verions should be done with your module?

[theory]

Validation.

[bessarabov]

Thank you for the quick answer!

What do you think of creating test (that will should be placed somewhere in xt/author, for example) that will check if the version is valid semantic version?

[theory]

Meh. I have no opinion. Should be simple enough, though.

use Test::More;
use SemVer;

for my $version_string (find VERSIONs) {
    lives_ok { SemVer->parse($version } or diag $@;
}

Or you can just use vstrings, though watch out for this bug.

[bessarabov]

Perfect! Thank you. This is exactly what I needed.