Minor: MS version info

Mariano Absatz el.baby at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 2 20:52:00 IST 2004


On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:51:44 +0100, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> At 19:17 02/08/2004, you wrote:
> >Just tested the new version info and got scared when it showed my Perl
> >version as 5.008. I looked in the code and in my Perl book and saw that
> >"$]" is used. Wouldn't "$^V" be nicer?
>
> Much nicer, yes. Sorry about that.
Mmmhhh what is the minimum perl version required for MailScanner?

IIRC, the 'nice' format is NOT available in Perl versions pre-5.6.0...

>
> >$ perl -e 'print "$]\n"'
> >5.008003
> >$ perl -e 'printf "%vd\n",$^V'
> >5.8.3
> >
> >Maybe Net::DNS could be added as an optional module also?
>
> Also done.
>
> These will be in the next release.


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