On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 08:55 -0700, Will Coleda wrote:
> Index: Makefile.PL
> ===================================================================
> -BEGIN { require 5.008 }
> +BEGIN { require 5.8.6 }
> Index: Configure.pl
> ===================================================================
> -use 5.008;
> +use 5.8.6;
I understand that it doesn't matter for anything used post-configure,
because in theory the user should have gotten a friendly error message
at configure time and not even make it to the other files -- but for
these two files, I believe we should use the backward compatible syntax,
so that ancient Perls will be friendly to people just trying to get
started.
(From `perldoc -f use`:
Specifying VERSION as a literal of the form v5.6.1 should generally be
avoided, because it leads to misleading error messages under earlier
versions of Perl (that is, prior to 5.6.0) that do not support this
syntax. The equivalent numeric version should be used instead.
use v5.6.1; # compile time version check
use 5.6.1; # ditto
use 5.006_001; # ditto; preferred for backwards compatibility
)
-'f
