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Re: perl4/5 errors in *.ph files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Sun Mar 29 15:03:19 1998
To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: perldev@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 1998 15:02:38 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Jacob Morzinski"'s message of Sun, 29 Mar 1998 03:47:42 EST
To the best of my knowledge, .ph files are *not supported* under
perl5. The idea is that rather than do something like "require
sys/socket.ph", you use a perl5-ism which gives the equivalent
functionality, like "use Socket". I eventually decided to run h2ph
for the common platforms as a convenience to people running perl4
scripts, and spent a long time hand-tweaking a number of them into
fixedness. I'm not surprised that there are still problems.
I'll do what I can about your patches (I just got back from spring
break), but I really recommend using equivalent perl5 modules instead.
I'm much happier about installing useful modules in the perl5 locker
than spending time fixing bugs in backwards-compatibility .ph files.
-wrong mike
