Hi folks,
I could reproduce this problem (after installing half a dozen Ubuntue perl
packages on my Debian system ;-p). It seems the problem is because the
version comparison is wrong:
if ($SVN::Core::VERSION gt '1.6.12') {
This does textual comparison, so 1.6.6 > 1.6.12. To do proper version
comparison, I think the version numbers should be split into
major/minor/revision and each be compared numerically.
This is not the only place where this comparison happens in this way,
there are 6 more comparisons in this way, which would have to be fixed
as well.
We could introduce a helper function for comparing version numbers by
splitting and comparing the parts separately, but that might be hard to
get right (especially when non-numeric version parts are involved).
An alternative would be to use the Sort::Versions perl module [1] for
this, but that would add an external dependency.
I'd be happy to code and test both approaches, just let me know which
would be preferred.
[1]: http://search.cpan.org/~edavis/Sort-Versions-1.5/Versions.pm
Gr.
Matthijs
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