On Nov 24, 2007 1:30 PM, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I think that this is an incredibly elegant and clever > solution. Im surprised you dislike it so much. It seems to me that if > it also somehow exposed the perl build number (aka .patch number) then > it would be quite useful. > > Just think, its backwards compatible, (it can be made into a cpan > module easily) and it solves the problem nicely without changing any > existing code. Its not that often you run into solutions to tricky > problems like this that are that simple.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it's not so easy because CPAN.pm and I assume CPANPLUS already won't try to install "perl" as a prerequisite. David
