From Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at  Tue Apr 30 19:39:22 2002
From: Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:39:22 +0200
Subject: [Rd] maketitle.pl for Perl 4.004
In-Reply-To: <E172ZNd-0000Og-00@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
References: <E172ZNd-0000Og-00@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
Message-ID: <15566.58586.18835.665434@mithrandir.hornik.net>

>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:

>> The version of maketitle.pl in R 1.5.0 does not work with
>> version 4.004 of Perl, so I use maketitle.pl from R version

> You presumabely mean 5.004.

> In either case, you probably want to upgrade. Even 5.005 is "old",
> so the upgrade to 5.6.1 is probably advisable.

Correct.  R 1.6 will unconditionally assume 5.005.

>> 1.4.1 instead. Can I expect this to cause any problems, for
>> instance when I build a package?

> Possibly, though probably only Kurt et al could say for sure.

As Fritz said: yes, but I'd recommend upgrading Perl to 5.005 or even
5.6.1.

Best
-k
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[Rd] maketitle.pl for Perl 4.004
Kurt Hornik