SPUG: getting versions of modules?
Colin Meyer
cmeyer at zipcon.net
Fri Aug 13 19:34:48 CDT 1999
...or try:
perl -MCGI -e'print "$CGI::VERSION\n"'
2.53
-Colin.
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 09:24:42AM -0700, Borow, Scott W wrote:
>
> You can check what version is installed by requiring
> a non existent high version of the module from the
> command line and examining the error message.
>
> For example for CGI.pm (since I don't have URI installed)
>
> borow at bandit ~ 512 > perl -M'CGI 9999'
> CGI version 9999 required--this is only version 2.36.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
> borow at bandit ~ 513 >
>
>
> --Scott
>
> > ----------
> > From: John Eckman[SMTP:eckman at u.washington.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:58 AM
> > Cc: SPUG List
> > Subject: SPUG: getting versions of modules?
> >
> > How do I tell what version of URI a system is running?
> >
> > I'm working with a script called checkbot.pl
> > <http://www.xs4all.nl/~graaff/checkbot/>
> >
> >
> > It makes the following call:
> >
> > my $redir_url = URI->new_abs($response->header('Location'), $baseURI);
> >
> > which generates an error on execution- apparentley the version of URI we
> > have is old.
> >
> > But how do I find out what version we do have?
> >
> > John
> >
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