On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:40 -0400, Robert Aspinall wrote: > Something I noticed when reinstalling DBI.. it's finding perl 5.008 > somewhere on the system, despite invoking cpan with the 5.8 binary.
Isn't that just how perl version numbers work? I thought 5.8 and 5.008 actually meant the same thing. The next release after 5.005 was 5.6, bumping the significant digit up a couple of decimal places. - Perrin
