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Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > The problem with this is that after building and installing > 5.8.x@30165, and then running 'r' from the CPAN prompt, you > get: > > Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file > ... > Text::Balanced 2 2.000000 > DCONWAY/Text-Balanced-v2.0.0.tar.gz > ... > > This is no good. It show there that an update is needed > when there shouldn't be. My patch (which quotes the > 2.000000) fixes this so that the above does not show up. I get that part, but I'm wondering why it isn't *CPAN* that needs fixing, since those two $VERSION's are equivalent. It can also be argued that perlmaint *does* need updating, since it doesn't have the XS version installed, but that's a different horse... John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Blvd Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747Thread Previous | Thread Next