> From: tony.edward...@gmail.com > Thanks for all your replies however Compress::Zlib was added > to core at version 5.9.3 whereas the preinstalled > version of perl in Solaris 10 and some linux distros is > earlier than that (5.8.4 for Solaris 10, 5.8.8 for Centos 5) > Solaris 10 is everywhere in the Banking sector and when Linux > is used, you only get version 5.8.8.
in these constraints, the problem does not have realistic solution. What you're doing - start with rewriting to pure-perl Compress::Zlib? Ok, assume this is done.[1] What next? Rewrite another module needed to your applications, and so on ? What about GD? Tk? Image::Imlib2? You reimplement these?? And what for? to please all these 2 or 3 people with 5.8.4 on SunOS? :o In the long run, these efforts are for /dev/null by design, because you're developing for ancient perl.... > > I am trying to address this by providing a native perl > mechanism which will work on any OS which you can just put > somewhere and access it via PERL5LIB, then download whatever > par files you want and it just works this just not going to work...... [1] I have funny idea that there indeed already is a solution.... There is Javasript unzipper (I use it in my old Nokia (Honest!) :) ) Its a single JS file that joes do the job, efficiently, and there is pure-perl Javascript on CPAN, so there is a pure-perl solution, but......... this isn't serious, of course :):)
