in reply to (tye)Re9: Getting current versions of Perl
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You seem to be right. But that's odd... why would it be called 5.6.0 if it were not?

I have build 623, in fact.

As Douglas Adams said in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe": "The Door would still be there, even if the door were not."

Thanks.

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(tye)Re10: Getting current versions of Perl
by tye (Sage) on Mar 10, 2001 at 00:52 UTC

    What version number would you like it to report?? The version number is often only part of the story, which is why there is a "perl -V" option in the first place. (:

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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      Mmm... even under -V it says: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: ...still mystified.
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        What -v reports is the main release of Perl that your copy is a patched copy of. What -V reports is information about the source you started with, and a summary of key configuration information, including patches made to that original.

        ActiveState started with 5.6.0 and applied a number of bug fixes. One of which fixed the above bug. But still it reports the version as 5.6.0 becaue that is the mainstream release it is derived from.

        Does that make sense?

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