[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       perl-ldap-dev
Subject:    Re: Dumping Net::LDAP::Entry to a string
From:       Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah () zimbra ! com>
Date:       2010-02-16 17:58:32
Message-ID: 3EB642117FD09239B6D572CA () [192 ! 168 ! 1 ! 2]
[Download RAW message or body]

--On Monday, February 15, 2010 2:21 PM -0600 Christopher Bongaarts 
<cab@umn.edu> wrote:

> Graham Barr wrote:
>> On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Christopher Bongaarts wrote:
>>> Graham Barr wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also, anything that can dump to a filehandle can dump to a string.
>>>>  open(my $fh,">",\my $buffer);
>>>>  then pass $fh as the file handle
>>> Only in perl >= 5.8.  Perl 5.6 and earlier won't support this syntax,
>>> so  I would advise against using this to implement and ldif() method
>>> unless you are OK with breaking compatibility with older perls...
>>
>> 5.8.0 was released nearly 8 years ago. Anyone who is still using a
>> version of perl that old will not mind using an old version of Net::LDAP
>> IMO.

I disagree with this statement. ;)  RHEL4, for example, ships with perl 
5.8.5, and remains one of the most widely deployed Linux distributions in 
the corporate environment.  Not to stop the march of progress or anything, 
as 5.10+ modules are growing, but there will be people who mind.  We build 
our own perl module stack for shipping with Zimbra because we need to know 
the modules behave consistently across all OSes and to resolve bugs we've 
hit with with the vendor distributed versions.  For Net::LDAP, I will have 
to peg it at whatever is the last release that works with 5.8 which is 
fine, since I have no known issues with it at this point.  But there's 
probably someone who'll not like the change. ;)

--Quanah


--

Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
--------------------
Zimbra ::  the leader in open source messaging and collaboration
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]