A very minor nit - the Makefile.PL spits out an warning for perl
versions below 5.8.0 saying that:
" Perl versions below 5.6.1 are no longer supported by the DBI. "
which should now read "Perl versions 5.6.2 and below ...".
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On 4/12/07, David Cantrell
>
> A very minor nit - the Makefile.PL spits out an warning for perl
> versions below 5.8.0 saying that:
>
> " Perl versions below 5.6.1 are no longer supported by the DBI. "
>
> which should now read "Perl versions 5.6.2 and below ...".
Why? I thought the point was that 5.6.2 *was* supported still.
In the DBI v1.53 Makefile.PL (the latest I could lay my hands on in
extracted format), there is:
BEGIN { require 5.006_00; ... }
and
if ($] < 5.008000) {
warn qq{\a
************************************************************ **************
Perl versions below 5.6.1 are no longer supported by the DBI.
Perl versions 5.6.x may fail during installation with a complaint
about the use of =head3 in the pod documentation.
************************************************************ **************
};
The point is - Perl 5.6.1 is not valid (though you can try it and the best
of British); 5.6.2 is OK but you may run into issues.
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:16:08PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> A very minor nit - the Makefile.PL spits out an warning for perl
> versions below 5.8.0 saying that:
>
> " Perl versions below 5.6.1 are no longer supported by the DBI. "
>
> which should now read "Perl versions 5.6.2 and below ...".
As I recall, many mac users had (have?) 5.6.1 installed by default.
Actually Makefile.PL and DBI.pm both say
require 5.006_00
Tim.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:58:38AM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> On 4/12/07, David Cantrell
> >A very minor nit - the Makefile.PL spits out an warning for perl
> >versions below 5.8.0 saying that:
> >" Perl versions below 5.6.1 are no longer supported by the DBI. "
> >which should now read "Perl versions 5.6.2 and below ...".
> Why? I thought the point was that 5.6.2 *was* supported still.
> ...
> The point is - Perl 5.6.1 is not valid (though you can try it and the best
> of British); 5.6.2 is OK but you may run into issues.
Well, one of those issues is that it doesn't pass its tests :-)
See the log from trying to build and install it and all its dependencies
here:
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/private/DBI-build-output-pe rl-5.6.2.gz
I'm not sure why at the bottom it says "Test result is 'na':
Prerequisite version too low" as all the pre-reqs are satisfied
Test::Simple: required: 0.40 installed: 0.70
Storable: required: 1 installed: 2.16
File::Spec: required: 1 installed: 3.24
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:03:41PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:58:38AM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> > On 4/12/07, David Cantrell
> > >A very minor nit - the Makefile.PL spits out an warning for perl
> > >versions below 5.8.0 saying that:
> > >" Perl versions below 5.6.1 are no longer supported by the DBI. "
> > >which should now read "Perl versions 5.6.2 and below ...".
> > Why? I thought the point was that 5.6.2 *was* supported still.
> > ...
> > The point is - Perl 5.6.1 is not valid (though you can try it and the best
> > of British); 5.6.2 is OK but you may run into issues.
>
> Well, one of those issues is that it doesn't pass its tests :-)
>
> See the log from trying to build and install it and all its dependencies
> here:
> http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/private/DBI-build-output-pe rl-5.6.2.gz
Please try with http://homepage.mac.com/tim.bunce/.Public/perl/DBI-1.55-RC1. tar.gz
Send me the log if there are any problems.
Thanks.
Tim.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:25:17PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:03:41PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > [5.6.2 errors]
> Please try with http://homepage.mac.com/tim.bunce/.Public/perl/DBI-1.55-RC1. tar.gz
All tests successful, 33 tests and 444 subtests skipped.
Huzzah!
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