Re: perl version comparison errors

# from David E. Wheeler
# on Thursday 10 July 2008 12:47:

>First, there is still an issue comparing  
>version numbers. Encode::ZapCP1252 has this line:
>
>     requires           => { 'perl'          => 5.006_002  },
>
>Yet I got this error when building it with Perl 5.6.2:
>
>Checking prerequisites...
>  * Optional prerequisite Encode is not installed
>  - ERROR: perl (5.006002) is installed, but we need version >= 5.6002
>
>That 5.6002 doesn't look right. I get the same error with 5.8.8:
>
>Checking prerequisites...
>. - ERROR: perl (5.008008) is installed, but we need version >= 5.6002

Odd.  What is the state of version.pm and such there?  I can't repeat 
that with my 5.8.8 with or without version::vxs (0.74 here.)

  $ perl -e 'use YAML; use Module::Build;
    warn YAML::Dump(
      Module::Build->check_installed_status(perl => "5.006_002"));'
  ---
  have: 5.8.8
  need: 5.006_002
  ok: 1

--Eric
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