Re: [Net::LDAP] Re: Dumping Net::LDAP::Entry to a string

--On Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:02 PM -0600 Peter Karman 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote on 2/16/10 11:58 AM:
>> --On Monday, February 15, 2010 2:21 PM -0600 Christopher Bongaarts
>> <[email protected]> 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.

Ah, okay, my mistake.  I misread that as 5.8.x instead of 5.8.0. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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