I'm preparing a little program for release to other people. As part of the code clean up all calls to die are being replaced by calls to croak. This lead me to question whether I can expect systems to have carp installed, Which lead me to Perl Monks to do some searching on the history of carp. Which lead to this node. Which is full of broken links.

Testing at work shows that carp was included in v5.6.1, at least as Sun packeged it up for Solaris. Perldoc indicates that v5.8 has carp included as a core module.

My base question: what should X.Y be in the statement , "If you are using Perl vX.Y or earlier you'll need to fetch Carp from CPAN."

My meta question: where can one find a timeline with a history of core modules? perlhist of perldoc.perl.org, for instance, does not even list carp. Neither does the Perl Timeline page. Does one need to drill down through the delta pages?

Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity

In reply to Module History, core modules, Carp by mikeraz

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