No $VERSION for Carp modules

[Steven Hilton]

I was documenting the list of modules and module versions that we use
in our applications, and noticed that Carp does not have a $VERSION
defined.

Why doesn't Carp have a $VERSION all it's own? Even in CPAN it is
matched to the version of perl it ships with (like 5.6.1), but other
core modules -- strict, AutoLoader, CPAN, all the ones I've checked so
far -- do? Is Carp special?

[Jim Keenan]

mshi...@yahoo.com (Steven Hilton) wrote in message news:<8dfcd2af.04051...@posting.google.com>...

I went to the search.cpan.org page for the latest version of Perl
(http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.4/) and noted that Carp is
listed as having version 1.02. I then checked my own slightly older
version of Perl (5.8.0 ActiveState binary build 806 for MSWin32), and
noted that Carp.pm has clearly defined:

our $VERSION = '1.01';

So, AFAICT, Carp is not special; it *does* have a version number.
Could you say what leads you to think otherwise? Thanks.

Jim Keenan

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

Jim Keenan (jkeen_vi...@yahoo.com) wrote:
: mshi...@yahoo.com (Steven Hilton) wrote in message news:<8dfcd2af.04051...@posting.google.com>...

: our $VERSION = '1.01';

$ ls Carp.pm
Carp.pm
$ grep -i version Carp.pm
$

Obviously this is a recent addition. No production sites with which I am
familiar are using 5.8 yet.

[mshiltonj]

> Obviously this is a recent addition. No production sites
> with which I am familiar are using 5.8 yet.

Correct, our production environment is running perl 5.6.1, and the Carp
module with that distribution does not have a $VERSION defined.

It's not a huge issue, and looks to be addressed in later versions of
perl. We will be moving to 5.8.3 this year as part of a larger
migration project. It just got me curious, is all. Thanks.