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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:23:56 +0900 From: Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]> To: Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] DB_File->fd returns 0 on Windows Hi Shlomi. > 1. Why have you not reported this bug here - > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=DB_File . How do you > expect > this problem to be fixed at the core otherwise? > Because obviously the bug was already found and reported - otherwise the author wouldn't have known to comment out the test. That, and the fact that the list is full of years-old bugs. > 2. Why aren't you using http://metacpan.org/release/BerkeleyDB > instead of DB_File ? > Because it is core, and in that application, reducing dependencies is important. Shmuel. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl * Backward compatibility is your worst enemy. * Backward compatibility is your users’ best friend. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
