Why does it say 5-8-0 when you're meaning to use 5.8.8?

I've seen this sort of thing happen before with ppm builds of PAR. ActiveState build their 5.8.x binaries using perl-5.8.0, and I think that's how the 5.8.0 dependency creeps in. The various 5.8.x dll's don't all export the same set of functions (for differing values of "x"), and Perl_Gsv_placeholder_ptr is apparently a case in point. (Looks like the 5.8.0 dll does export it, but not the 5.8.8 dll.)

It has been quite a while since I've seen this issue crop up - so I'm hazy on the details.

Cheers,
Rob