Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote:
On 2004-12-29, at 15:37:07 -0500, Stas Bekman wrote:
Because of the way the data is gathered. All the portability
information in ppport.h is automatically generated by a set
of scripts in a quite lengthy process (see HACKERS in D::P
for details). The data isn't neccessarily reliable (yet) or
complete. When it says "May not be supported" this just means
that the compiler had some sort of trouble compiling the
test code, for whatever reason. It could be because the
interface changed, which doesn't mean that it's unsupported.
So why giving information that it's not certain.
Because it is most probably correct.
IMHO, it's better to give none at all.
If you tell May not be supported, I still need to go and
check those perls below 5.7.3.
Exactly. But if I'd say "Is not supported" (which is most
probably the case), would that make it any better?
I could of course rephrase it to "is most probably not
supported, but there is a slight chance that only the
interface changed". ;-)
>
Of course the good thing that I know for
sure that it's supported by perl 5.7.3+
Plus, you know that _something_ changed between 5.7.2 and 5.7.3.
If it would tell you "supported down to 5.6.1", but the API call
got an extra parameter with 5.7.3, I think that would be worse.
OK, based on this logic, I think the best wording will be:
Supported at least starting from perl-5.7.3.
And the last question, why not installing ppport.h into the perl tree? I
know Devel::PPPort generates one, but why bother typing commands, when one
could just copy it from the tree?
Do you think it's much easier to copy the file than writing
perl -MDevel::PPPort -eDevel::PPPort::WriteFile
?
I do, because one needs to figure out what to type. It's easy for you
since its your project so you remember it by heart. For me, I need to
perldoc it first. For me it's easier to:
find /usr/lib/perl5 | grep ppport.h
and copy just that.
In any case TIMTOWTDI :)
echo 'alias ppport="perl -MDevel::PPPort -eDevel::PPPort::WriteFile"' >>~/.alias
;-)
I don't create aliases for things I do once in 3 months :)
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