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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, John Peacock wrote: > Jan Dubois wrote: >>>> >>>> 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... This is a reason why I don't want to 'use version'. I'm using plain numbers as the version, and therefore shouldn't have to worry about all this other stuff. I hope you at least realize that the new error message is much more confusing for the novice user who couldn't care less about version objects. Anyways, I don't want to get involved in this, and will live with whatever the pumpking decides to do... Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next