[Pkg-rrfw-general] dependencies (was: libnet-snmp-perl dependency)

[Jurij Smakov]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:50:35PM -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > perl			5.6.1-8.7	5.8.4-2		>= 5.8.0
>
> That one's a bad one that clearly wasn't present when I last used rrfw
> in a woody environment. Do you know why that dependency is there? Is
> that some funky "utf8 chars don't display right, web interface is ugly
> dependency, or a hard "rrfw won't run at all on any older perl" issue?

>From RRFW ChangeLog:

2004-03-24  Stanislav Sinyagin  <ssinyagin@users.sourceforge.net>

        * lib/RRFW/RPN.pm: now Math::BigFloat is always used for numbers
        Perl 5.8.0 or higher is required: BigFloat implementation in 5.6.1
        is untested and hardly compatible

Subsequently, Perl >= 5.8.0 becomes a requirement for 0.1.6.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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