there are millions of computer in the City running Solaris 10 and loads of people who want to use perl om these but are held back but the ancient version pre-installed. I am not sure I follow your comments about Gd and Tk - I have a working par file including Tk, all thT I need is a way to be able to use it without using Archive::Zip. I am leaning towards imprementing a pure Perl version of Arvhive::Zip ( at least, the functionality needed by PAR) and then use the exising PAR module. maybe it will use Archive::Zip if installed or a pure perl equivalent if not i can see no reason why this won't work and I believe it is worthwhile effort
On Friday, April 5, 2013, Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR ** wrote: > > From: [email protected] <javascript:;> > > Thanks for all your replies however Compress::Zlib was added > > to core at version 5.9.3 whereas the preinstalled > > version of perl in Solaris 10 and some linux distros is > > earlier than that (5.8.4 for Solaris 10, 5.8.8 for Centos 5) > > Solaris 10 is everywhere in the Banking sector and when Linux > > is used, you only get version 5.8.8. > > in these constraints, the problem does not have realistic solution. > > What you're doing - start with rewriting to pure-perl Compress::Zlib? > Ok, assume this is done.[1] What next? > > Rewrite another module needed to your applications, and so on ? > > What about GD? Tk? Image::Imlib2? You reimplement these?? > > And what for? > to please all these 2 or 3 people with 5.8.4 on SunOS? > :o > In the long run, these efforts are for /dev/null by design, because > you're developing for ancient perl.... > > > > > > I am trying to address this by providing a native perl > > mechanism which will work on any OS which you can just put > > somewhere and access it via PERL5LIB, then download whatever > > par files you want and it just works > > this just not going to work...... > > > [1] I have funny idea that there indeed already is a solution.... > There is Javasript unzipper (I use it in my old Nokia (Honest!) :) ) > Its a single JS file that joes do the job, efficiently, > and there is pure-perl Javascript on CPAN, > so there is a pure-perl solution, > but......... this isn't serious, of course :):)
