From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove dependency on IO::String from Git.pm test Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:13:29 -0700 Message-ID: <7vzlpiy2sm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1213796224-995-1-git-send-email-michael@ndrix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , Michael Hendricks , gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 18 21:14:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K937I-0006W1-Pp for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:14:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752693AbYFRTNw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:13:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752257AbYFRTNw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:13:52 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:53808 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365AbYFRTNv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:13:51 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0417F1686C; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:13:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 281DB16868; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:13:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:14 +0100 (BST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: ABDA08C2-3D6A-11DD-B574-CE28B26B55AE-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> Michael Hendricks 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... Hey, calm down a bit and give me a bit more credit. I am not that stupid. I've looked at the patch, and it is parked in 'pu', not near 'next'.