RE: ACTIVEPERL_VERSION used to be a string and so fails >=822 test

2007-09-17 Thread Jan Dubois
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > ACTIVEPERL_VERSION is a string in older versions of ActivePerl. > Googling showed ACTIVEPERL_VERSION as a number in 5.8.7 build 813; > and we are only concerned with later buids of 5.8.8. So I decided > to use the following guard: > > #if

RE: ACTIVEPERL_VERSION used to be a string and so fails >=822 test

2007-09-14 Thread Suresh Govindachar
ACTIVEPERL_VERSION is a string in older versions of ActivePerl. Googling showed ACTIVEPERL_VERSION as a number in 5.8.7 build 813; and we are only concerned with later buids of 5.8.8. So I decided to use the following guard: #if (PERL_REVISION == 5) && (PERL_VERSION == 8) && (PERL_

ACTIVEPERL_VERSION used to be a string and so fails >=822 test

2007-09-14 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Jan Dubois wrote: > > should be written more general like this: > > /* ActivePerl build 822 still identifies itself as 5.8.8 but >* already contains many of the changes from the upcoming >* Perl 5.8.9 release. >*/ > #if (ACTIVEPERL_VERSION >= 822) > # defin