RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] Just a suggestion...

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Roub wrote:

> This brings up another point -- should we be doing a:
>
> 	require 5.004_04;
>
> in each script?  Alternatively, should we check $PERL_VERSION and die more
> gracefully?
>

If anyone is on a web server with less than that then this will be least
of their problems ;-}

/J\
> -paul
>
>
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> Stowe
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> Subject: RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] Just a suggestion...
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Wizard wrote:
>
> > > Not that I would like to discourage anyone from creating a new storage
> > > mechanism that could be used on green field sites (bearing in mind this
> > > can't use any non-Core modules so XML or DBI is out :()
> >
> > If anyone has a list of what modules were distributed with 5.004_04, it
> > would help a lot. The earliest version available on perl.com is 5.005_03.
> >
>
> http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/maint/perl5.004_04.tar.gz
>
>
> > Additionally, some requirement of the minimum version of CGI.pm required
> to
> > run these nms scripts would probably be in order, and the scripts should
> > test for it (CGI->version()) and be tested against it. The 5.005_03
> version
> > on perl.com comes with 2.46, but I have no idea if that's what originally
> > came with it. As a note, CGI.pm versions prior to 2.36 "suffered a year
> 2000
> > problem in the handling of cookies" and who knows what else.
>
>
> The version that came with 5.004.04 is 2.36
>
> /J\
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