add some extra doc for non-integer version users

diff --git a/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Cookbook/CustomResultSource.pod b/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Cookbook/CustomResultSource.pod
index eeea7c4..2f1b79d 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Cookbook/CustomResultSource.pod
+++ b/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Cookbook/CustomResultSource.pod
@@ -94,3 +94,9 @@ table being set on the original result.
  __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
  1;
 
+Note: if you are using decimal numbers for versioning, you should ammend
+this DeploymentHandler package, setting it's VersionHandler class_name from
+Monotonic ( which handles integer only version numbers ) to ExplicitVersions
+or DatabaseToSchemaVersions, as these handle version numbers as strings
+instead of integers.
+

diff --git a/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Manual/Intro.pod b/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Manual/Intro.pod
index 1601656..1148b53 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Manual/Intro.pod
+++ b/lib/DBIx/Class/DeploymentHandler/Manual/Intro.pod
@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ or if you are using a newer Perl you can use the prettier syntax:
 
 By default DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler only uses integers for versions,
 this makes versioning much simpler for figuring out what version is next
-(or previous.)
+(or previous.) However, if you are using decimal numbers for versioning,
+you will need to create a separate DeploymentHandler class, as per
+L<DBIx::Class::DeploymentHandler::Cookbook::CustomResultSource>, and
+set the VersionHandler class_name from Monotonic to ExplicitVersions or
+DatabaseToSchemaVersions, as these handle version numbers as strings instead
+of integers.
 
 =head1 install.pl