In the 'installer' Perl script, very early on, I check for the installed version of Perl. I need to trap this result in the application and explain to the person who is doing the install what the problem is, even if they don't know Perl.

I don't remember where I found this but it tells me if the installed Perl is 5.12 or higher. 

use version;
 ...
sub checkPerlVer {
  my $minVer = shift;   # eg  '5.12'
  my $installVer = `perl -v|grep -E '(v[1-9.]+)'`; 

  if ($installVer =~ /\((v[\d+.]+)\)/){
    #print "match $1\n";
    my $reVer = $1;
    my $iver= version->parse($reVer);
    my $mver= version->parse($minVer);
    printf "Minimum Perl=$mver  Installed Perl=$iver \n";
    if ($mver <= $iver) {
      print "OK \n";
      return 1; #OK
    }else{
      print "NOPE\n";
      return 0; #NOT OK
    }    
    
  }else{
    print "No version found: <$installVer>\n";
    return 0;
  }
   
}

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It is always better to have seen your target for yourself, rather than depend upon someone else's description.

In reply to Re^2: Why not include version.pm by Wiggins
in thread Why not include version.pm by Wiggins

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