Re: [Arsperl-users] ARS Perl and Remedy V7

[Quanah Gibson-M. <qu...@st...>]

--On January 6, 2007 10:45:35 AM +0100 Michiel Beijen 
<mic...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Quanah,
>
> The current version of ARSPerl has to be compiled against the AR System
> 6.3 libs. However, most major calls (especially the all the data
> modification calls: getentry, setentry, etc) will work seamlessly with
> arsperl against any recent AR System version: 5, 6 or 7. Just as you
> could use a V6.3 user tool against a v7 server for data modification.
> Remedy goes through a great deal of effort to make sure that this stuff
> will be mostly the same across versions. When you will have created an
> api program for an integration against v5 years ago, it will (most
> probably) still work on v7.
> Of course, you will not be able to access v7 new stuff like the new
> navigation fields using the current ARSPerl but then again I think you
> will not probably need that.

Hi Michael,

I'm fairly aware of how the Remedy API works, since I'm the one who 
contributed back the code to make it compile with the V6 API, and also the 
ability to compile against the encryption libraries.  I'm not quite sure 
where you are getting your information about V7, however, because so far in 
our communications with remedy, they indicate that *all* our user clients 
will have to be upgraded to the v7 user client, among other things, which 
would appear to indicate that the V7 api is not backwards compatible.  In 
any case, as it appears no one else has gotten to V7 yet, and Stanford has 
started a project to migrate to V7, I expect that one of my co workers or I 
will be contributing the V7 API code back too. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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