Inconsistent use of Perl? (PR#1937)

Sun, 25 Aug 2002 19:12:46 +0800 (WST)

>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

  BDR> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 berwin@maths.uwa.edu.au wrote:
  >> [...]  But during configuration there don't seem to be any check
  >> whether the pdflatex is recent enough.  You might want to
  >> consider to add such a check.

  BDR> Well, we would need to know which version failed.  What is
  BDR> yours?
0.12h it seems.  (See below).  The hyperref package coming with that
installation is also too old, it seems....

  >> [...]  This leaves me wondering why during the base installation
  >> Perl 5.004 (or later) is good enough for producing the `TITLE'
  >> file but for `R CMD INSTALL' Perl 5.005 (or later) is required.

  BDR> That is correct.  Most things require 5.004, a few require
  BDR> 5.005.  Why is that a bug?
Did I claim it was a bug? :) Anyway, from the FAQ:

    If a command you are familiar with causes an R error message in a
    case where its usual definition ought to be reasonable, it is
    probably a bug.

After installing R and knowing that `./configure' checks which Perl
version I have, I expect to have a system that works fine and doesn't
all of a sudden tell me that my Perl version is too old and cannot
perform a `complete' install of addtional packages.  If part of R
needs Perl 5.005, why don't you check for Perl 5.005?  O.k., you can
argue that it wasn't an error message but just a warning, or that I am
not familiar with the command (fair enough too :-) ), but the FAQ
continues:

   If you aren't familiar with the command, or don't know for certain
   how the command is supposed to work, then it might actually be
   working right. Rather than jumping to conclusions, show the problem
   to someone who knows for certain.

And I did exactly the latter, labeling my report `inconsistent use of
Perl'.  Rest assured, if I think something is a bug, then I will say
so in the subject line. :)

Cheers,

        Berwin

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