# from David E. Wheeler
# on Thursday 10 July 2008 12:47:
>First, there is still an issue comparing
>version numbers. Encode::ZapCP1252 has this line:
>
> requires => { 'perl' => 5.006_002 },
>
>Yet I got this error when building it with Perl 5.6.2:
>
>Checking prerequisites...
> * Optional prerequisite Encode is not installed
> - ERROR: perl (5.006002) is installed, but we need version >= 5.6002
>
>That 5.6002 doesn't look right. I get the same error with 5.8.8:
>
>Checking prerequisites...
>. - ERROR: perl (5.008008) is installed, but we need version >= 5.6002
Odd. What is the state of version.pm and such there? I can't repeat
that with my 5.8.8 with or without version::vxs (0.74 here.)
$ perl -e 'use YAML; use Module::Build;
warn YAML::Dump(
Module::Build->check_installed_status(perl => "5.006_002"));'
---
have: 5.8.8
need: 5.006_002
ok: 1
--Eric
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