| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jonathan <jonathan(at)leto(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #5339: Version of Perl detected incorrectly |
| Date: | 2010-02-23 21:02:11 |
| Message-ID: | 15996.1266958931@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:31:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I still think that this is optimizing the wrong thing. We care about
>> the clarity of the message the user sees, not about how short or clean
>> the Perl code is.
> There's no need to try to parse the perl -v output, which is intended
> for humans and may change in future. Using
> perl -e 'print $]'
will give you the version number in floating point format for all
versions of perl.
$ /usr/local/bin/perl4 -e 'print $]'
$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.8 $$Date: 1993/02/05 19:39:30 $
Patch level: 36
I will refrain from further comment.
regards, tom lane
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