Hi, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Michael Hendricks <michael@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Instead of using IO::String to create an in-memory filehandle, use > > open() with a scalar reference as the filename. This feature has been > > available since Perl 5.8.0 (which was released in 2002), so it should > > be available pretty much everywhere by now. > > Besides if I understand correctly gitweb very much requires Perl >= 5.8 > because of required Unicode support. Did I miss something? Was this patch not more about Git.pm? BTW I think it is not nice at all how the dependency hell with Git.pm is made worse recently. It is fascinating through how much _pain_ we go with the shell scripts to maintain portability, even with _very_ old or obscure systems (see the SCO server patches that came in not long ago!), and just walk over that portability when it comes to Perl... Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
