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

[Paul R. <pa...@ro...>]

Agreed -- but it is a requirement of ours, and given that we're aiming at
novices, it might help if we can give them something concrete to ask their
admins about.

Might be as simple as their needing to change the shebang to
"#!/usr/bin/perl5 ..."

-paul


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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:29 PM
To: Paul Roub
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Subject: RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] Just a suggestion...


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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nms...@li...]On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Stowe
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:57 AM
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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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