Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote on 2/16/10 11:58 AM: > --On Monday, February 15, 2010 2:21 PM -0600 Christopher Bongaarts > <c...@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.
I didn't hear the OP referring to 5.8.x as "old" but as anything prior to 5.8.0 as old. The 5.6.x line is officially unsupported[0] so I think Christopher is correct. [0] http://www.perl.com/download.csp#previous -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . pe...@peknet.com
