[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] Net::SSH2 on perl 5.6

[hugues <Hug...@af...>]

Hello David,

I've been having a look at your new Net::SSH2 module and would 
very much like to use that in place of Net::SSH::Perl in my
application. 

My problem is that the production servers that will ultimately have to
run the application still run under perl 5.6.0, and that probably
won't change in the near future :-((

I just wanted to know if there were some fundamental reason why your
module actually requires perl 5.8 or if there might be some hope to
make it run under perl 5.6 too ?

I've been trying just the obvious things, i.e removing all 'use 5.008'
in Makefile.PL and all the .pm files, and adding a typemap entry for
'const char *' as it is defined in the default one for perl5.8 but not
for perl5.6.

With that mods, i managed to compile the stuff, but got stuck there: 

root-w2# prove -v -b t/Net-SSH2.t  
t/Net-SSH2....1..72 
ok 1 - use Net::SSH2; 
ok 2 - new session isa Net::SSH2 
ok 3 - error state clear 
ok 4 - set banner 
ok 5 - LIBSSH2_* constants 
ok 6 - libSSH2 version 0.12 > 0.11 
ok 7 - list version match 
ok 8 - API date yyyymmddhhmm 
event is not of type AVPtr at blib/lib/Net/SSH2.pm line 396. 
ok 9 - banner is SSH-2.0-libssh2_0.12 
# Looks like you planned 72 tests but only ran 9. 
# Looks like your test died just after 9. 
dubious 
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) 
DIED. FAILED tests 10-72 
        Failed 63/72 tests, 12.50% okay 
Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/Net-SSH2.t  255 65280    72  126 175.00%  10-72 
Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 63/72 subtests failed, 12.50% okay. 

Before diving any further, i thought i might ask you if there was hope
along that path, or if i'd better put all my strength in getting perl 5.8
installed on my productions servers ...

Thanks anyway for both maintaining Net::SSH::Perl and providing us
with that new shiny  Net::SSH2 module !

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