-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- James Troup, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It hasn't happened *intentionally*. I'm not going to break many >> Perl scripts without warning. We have a release where gdbm is >> deprecated and then next release, Perl won't be linked with it. > >I don't know perl, and am only going on what Ray has been telling me. >It was my understanding that perl could be made to dynamically load >it's gdbm part on request and that way perl need only recommend or >(better) suggest gdbm. Is this not the case?
This is the case if you use the tie interface in Perl. This is not the case if you use dbmopen, at least it didn't use to be. Hamm should just get out the door and we'll deal with it in slink. Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNYTojY4wrq++1Ls5AQElrQP+OBkhMCEQLmhudJ4NWgWOvawQhiwGRCVl Kbla2nDaPaYZC6orumaPcpzLcHbuIdcWKv5QjgHOGVGUDryZHysMXFBI/XVtJ+Jk 549efR2BnTuuPz3zam2tStGyDP+Xt/F0Fr+ozsa3we4gIFfLFZ0mBX1v9f6DjzMH CdMCd2MiC4o= =GTfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]