Re: New copyright program

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:22:03PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 08/19/2011 09:02 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:37:29PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>
> >>On 08/19/2011 07:31 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>>Kris Jurka wrote:
> >>>>Did you also try the "use Tie::File" addition in my fix because your
> >>>>current coding doesn't work at all. The tie operation is key to actually
> >>>>writing out the modified copyright notice. Your version just updates the
> >>>>copyright year in memory, but never gets it back to the file.
> >>>Ah, that did fix it; thanks. I am attached the updated committed
> >>>copyright.pl. I also skipped symlinks.
> >>>
> >>It probably doesn't matter that much in this context, but I should
> >>point out that Tie::File is not universally available. Some years
> >>ago I had to revert its use in the buildfarm code for that reason.
> >>In general we should try to avoid adding extra dependencies
> >>wherever possible.
> >Tie::File ships as part of core Perl for all non-EOL versions, so I
> >really can't consider this as a problem.
>
> Which are those?

5.12 and 5.14 are still supported. 5.10 and earlier are EOL.

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/05/perl-514.html

Cheers,
David.
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