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Jan Dubois wrote: > 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. As long as you use exclusively numeric versions, you shouldn't notice any difference with 'use version' at all (apart from the [improved] error message). Personally, I don't think that the error message is all that confusing, but if that is the feeling of the group, I could make the output dependent on whether the module $VERSION was numeric or extended. In other words, the error message that Steve (Hay) would have seen would have been this instead: Win32 version 0.270 required--this is only version 0.260 (the trailing zero is due to the version being normalized on three decimal multiples). Iff the module $VERSION was using an extended version, the error would be: XXX version v0.270.0 required--this is only version v0.260.0 The only tricky part is that there is an equality relationship between extended and floating point versions, so someone /could/ mix them in a 'use' line successfully (though I could forbid mixing that usage if we wanted to). 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