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Jan Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> Steve Hay wrote: >>> I just tried building libwin32-0.26 using an installed copy of the >>> current bleadperl, and got this error: >>> >>> Win32 version 0.270 (v0.270.0) required--this is only version 0.260 >>> (v0.260.0) at c:\perl\lib/File/Copy.pm line 273. > > Hmm, this ugly error message looks a bit misleading, it really should > look like this: > > | Win32 version 0.27 required--this is only version 0.26 at c:\perl\lib/File/Copy.pm line 273. > > I normally try to stay out of the version number silliness, but this > does look like a step backwards to me. I have no idea if this can (or > should) be fixed in bleadperl or not (Perl 5.8 does give the correct > error message). That *is* the correct error message [for bleadperl]: 0.27 == 0.270 == v0.270.0 The presence of version objects in bleadperl mean that the error message needs to show both the floating-point and extended versions in the same message. If you 'use version' under 5.8.x, you'll get that same error message... John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748Thread Previous | Thread Next