Re: [PATCH] Remove dependency on IO::String from Git.pm test

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> 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...