On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> wrote: > It's a bug in base. It shouldn't set the $VERSION to something that > doesn't pass a "lax" version number test. > > If it *has* to set VERSION for some reason, (and I'm not convinced it > should) it should just set it to '0'. base.pm's documented version number has been '-1, set by base.pm'. Are you intending to change that? from `perldoc base`: If $VERSION is not detected even after loading it, <base> will define $VERSION in the base package, setting it to the string C<-1, set by base.pm>. JoshThread Previous | Thread Next