Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Feb 22, 2006, 19:51 UTC
Message-ID: <43FCC0D0.5050307@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0602220835p4c4243edm145ee827eb706121@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:

>>I guess what I'm saying is that if you want to limit the modules that
>>Perl script uses, you end up either impacting on the portability of the
>>script or rediscovering problems with early wheel designs.
> IPC::Open{2,3} seem to be installed on every system I have access to.

Checking in Module::CoreList, that module goes right back to the Perl 5.0 release, so every normal Perl 5 distribution should have it.

Sam.

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