Re: New copyright program

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:49:35PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Sorry for being unclear. I didn't mean to imply that earlier versions
of Perl didn't ship with File::Tie. Just that all supported versions
do.

Cheers,
David.
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