Re: New copyright program

David Fetter wrote:
> 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

Odd the Tie works in my Perl 5.10; I wonder if I installed it somehow.

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