Eric Wilhelm wrote:
The one detail I'd note is that some distros use dotted decimal
('perl' => '5.8.0') so M::B::Compat should convert that (5.008000) in
a 'require 5.XXXXXX' line for older versions of Perl.
Yep. I think there's some version.pm fu for that.
$vobj->numify() return the floating point equivalent for any version
object (like ->normal() returns the fully normalized double dotted form).
On a closely related topic, I'm just responding on p5p to Merijn, who
just noticed that under bleadperl, the following:
require 5.8.0;
now issues a "portable" warning (whereas as long as you were running
5.6.0 or better it would just suck it up). Hrrrummmf...
John
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