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

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) # define

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)