dolmen/p5-Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ReportVersions-Tiny — pull request #5 by rjbs (2012-09-18 20:27:13+00:00)
Title: don't use $^V; it doesn't work very well

$^V isn't really safe until 5.16, but more importantly: on 5.8, $^V is
set, but stringifies to \x05\x08\x08 (for example) so that when printed
on most terminals, it isn't readable.

In test reports, then, it looks like this:

# perl: (wanted any version) on freebsd from /usr/perl5.8.9/bin/perl5.8.9

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/4ad489c0-01bb-11e2-a955-f29f804aad6d

We should just stick to $]. It will always work.