Re: Perl 5.004_04 IPC: Passing data structures between processes

I'm sure that you've been told this before, but using such an old version of Perl with no CPAN modules is just madness. Why deliberately cripple yourself like that? You (and other programmers you work with) will reap major benefits if you spend some time getting that policy changed.

Or, if that's really not an option then I seriously suggest you start looking for a new client or a new job (as appropriate)!

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Re^2: Perl 5.004_04 IPC: Passing data structures between processes by Tanalis (Curate) on Jul 13, 2005 at 10:47 UTC
I know that, you know that. This is an ongoing battle that's been going on for at least the past 2 years .. and shows no sign of getting sorted out yet. I can understand the Perl version, mind - it'll take a fairly hefty number of developer hours to go through all of the code we have that works around Perl 5.004 bugs (or, worse, fails to run on later versions of Perl) to fix issues. Unfortunately, in the "here and now", I'm stuck with what I have to work with. It's stupid, it's causing problems, but it's the way things are. -- Foxcub `#include www.liquidfusion.org.uk`	[reply]

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Re^2: Perl 5.004_04 IPC: Passing data structures between processes
by Tanalis (Curate) on Jul 13, 2005 at 10:47 UTC

I can understand the Perl version, mind - it'll take a fairly hefty number of developer hours to go through all of the code we have that works around Perl 5.004 bugs (or, worse, fails to run on later versions of Perl) to fix issues.

Unfortunately, in the "here and now", I'm stuck with what I have to work with. It's stupid, it's causing problems, but it's the way things are.

-- Foxcub
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