Re: perl version output of configure?

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:10:31PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Denis Barbier wrote:
> > nothing wrong, this version number comes from
> >     perl -e 'printf "%.3f", $]'
> 
> Noticed it later using <:=$] :>, because I didn't find the position in
> the configure file, where it is determined... (As Murphy's Law
> predicted: Now I've found it...)
> 
> > Maybe we should use
> >     perl -e 'print $]'
> > instead, but is it really important?
> 
> Well, at least, the actual solution is some kind of confusing, if you
> upgrade between subversions, like I did today.
> 
> It wouldn't be so much confusing, if $] would have been 5.006000 in
> PERL 5.6.0, or if the output of the WML configure script would have
> been only "5.6", because in that cases the output (IMHO) would be
> clearly a truncated value.
> 
> Personally I would prefer an output like "5.6.0" or "5.7.1" (based on
> $^V), but IMHO at least it should be the full value or if it's a
> truncated value, it should be clearly indicated, that the shown value
> is truncated.

Agree, but $^V has appeared with Perl 5.6.0.  If you find a solution
which works with all versions >= 5.005 (and also future Perl
versions ;)) then let me know.  I did not want to spend too much time on
this, and also did not want to break this version detection.

Denis
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