Hi Shmuel, On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 10:54:30 +0200 Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:23:56 +0900 > From: Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]> > To: Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] DB_File->fd returns 0 on Windows > > > Hi Shlomi. > > > > 1. Why have you not reported this bug here - > > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=DB_File . How do > > you expect > > this problem to be fixed at the core otherwise? > > > > Because obviously the bug was already found and reported - otherwise > the author wouldn't have known to comment out the test. > That, and the fact that the list is full of years-old bugs. > yes, I saw. Well, saying "this should work and does not" may be a good nudge to indicate that the test should be fixed and that the test should have been fixed instead of avoided. > > > 2. Why aren't you using http://metacpan.org/release/BerkeleyDB > > instead of DB_File ? > > > > Because it is core, and in that application, reducing dependencies is > important. Have you read: http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/but-i-cant-use-cpan/ Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Shmuel. > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Humanity" - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
