(tye)Re10: Getting current versions of Perl

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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Re: (tye)Re10: Getting current versions of Perl by premchai21 (Curate) on Mar 10, 2001 at 07:25 UTC
Mmm... even under -V it says: `Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:` ...still mystified.	[reply] [d/l]
No mystification necessary by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 10, 2001 at 11:45 UTC
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?	[reply]