On 2007-02-24 10:50:32 -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On Feb 24, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
It is version 1.77. The version provided by the p5-math-bigint port is 1.73 only. Is there a reason to keep such a port that is not up-to-date and that will never be used because perl first selects the modules distributed with the perl5 port?
A module can explicitly load the non-core module.
But loading an explicit version isn't standard. The installation should be set up so that the latest version is loaded with "use <module>;".
BTW, the latest version of Math::BigInt on CPAN is 1.79.
There probably isn't a reason to have the older one in the tree (but there could be a reason to have the newer one available).
Currently this isn't really useful since use Math::BigInt lib => 'GMP'; loads the core module, with the default @INC. If someone installs p5-math-bigint because it is more recent than the core version, he probably wants it to be loaded instead of the core version.
Shouldn't perl5 be upgraded?
I'm not sure what you mean, there's no perl5 port. The perl5.8 port is for the latest stable perl release 5.8.8.
Yes, I meant the perl5.8 port. Wouldn't that make version 1.79 available? (Version 1.77 isn't even on CPAN any longer.) -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)