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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
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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.