From: "Nei Kai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/3/11, Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Nei Kai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I found a mmap module in CPAN, called Sys::Mmap, whose > > > version is V0.13 and is not updated since 2002. > > > So I am not sure if it is supposed to be used nowadays. > > > > > > What happened when you tried it? > > > > > Actually I didn't try it, since I am not sure it is worth to spend > time to test it in advance. > Anyway, V0.13 doesn't sound like a fixed edition that should be > proposed to the manager.
Some people use versions below 1 to signify that the module is not yet stable/finished enough, some don't. You can't infer anything from the version number alone. And neither you can from the date of the last update ... maybe there was no reason to update, it's complete and no bugs were found. Sys::Mmap is rated with 5 stars, has a good review, passes tests in 26 out of 27 cases (the fail is under Windows ... apparently the module doesn't work there.). It's true that there are two old reported bugs, one of them reporting a segfauth if you try to unmap something that was not mapped, other reporting a problem on 64bit machine(s). So it does look like there is some need for an update, but it works well enough as is. Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
