From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:38:14 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FB9656.8050308@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060221215742.GA5948@steel.home>
Alex Riesen wrote:
>>>Does not work here (ActiveState Build 811, Perl 5.8.6):
>>>$ perl -e 'open(F, "-|")'
>>>'-' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>>>operable program or batch file.
>>Portability, Ease of Coding, Few CPAN Module Dependencies. Pick any two.
> Sometimes an upgrade is just out of question. Besides, that'd mean an
> upgrade to another operating system, because very important scripts
> over here a just not portable to anything else but
> "ActiveState Perl on Windows (TM)"
> I just have no choice.
Sure, but perhaps IPC::Open2 or some other CPAN module has solved this
problem already.
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.
Sam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-21 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 18:37 Should we support Perl 5.6? Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-20 19:10 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-20 21:01 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-20 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:05 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] rerere: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] send-email: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:12 ` [PATCH] svmimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-20 22:19 ` [PATCH] cvsimport: " Junio C Hamano
2006-02-21 17:30 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: " Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 20:36 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-21 21:57 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-21 22:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-21 22:35 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:38 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-02-21 23:00 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-21 22:38 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2006-02-22 16:35 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-22 19:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 19:51 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-22 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-22 22:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-22 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 8:00 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 8:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 9:35 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 9:41 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 9:48 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 10:10 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 13:29 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 14:07 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-23 14:22 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-23 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-23 19:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-23 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 20:31 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-24 6:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 21:43 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 19:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-26 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26 20:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 14:18 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:18 ` Mark Wooding
2006-03-02 16:11 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:20 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 23:17 ` NT directory traversal speed on 25K files on Cygwin Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27 1:18 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27 18:30 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-02-27 18:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-27 9:19 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-27 18:45 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-03-02 13:40 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 14:10 ` [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 15:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:10 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 17:39 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-02 22:01 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-26 20:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-24 12:02 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-24 13:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-24 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-21 20:56 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-21 22:04 ` Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <1cf1c57a0602211412r1988b14ao435edd29207dc0d0@mail.gmail.com>
2006-02-21 22:13 ` Ron Parker
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-02 16:44 Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 16:55 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-02 22:09 ` Alex Riesen
2006-03-02 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-03 0:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 1:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-03 1:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 0:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-03-02 17:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
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