Re: [mh] internet_usgs.pl

Rick Steeves <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.misterhouse.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stumbled across this to get MH working under Perl 5.12 with DB_File and 
Win32:setupsup. There's a bunch there I don't quite understand, but I'll 
see if I can tease it apart.

https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse/wiki/WindowsPerl5.12#Install_Win32setupsup

Rick


On 2/2/2019 5:11 PM, Rick Steeves wrote:
> For reasons that escape me, the core mh code includes specific 
> references to specific builds, and that code is then specifically 
> physically included in the mh build:
> 
>          if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
>              my $build = &Win32::BuildNumber;
>              if ($build < 600) {
>                  push @INC, './../lib/site_win50';
>              }
>              elsif ($build < 800) {
>          ...
> 
> Those references only go up to Perl 5.10. I have no idea why they're there.
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/2/2019 2:14 PM, Eloy Paris wrote:
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 06:29:05PM -0500, Rick Steeves wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Replacing my implementation of Perl with Activestate Perl 5.16 means 
>>> that MH
>>> doesn't support that version of Perl. The most current version 
>>> supported is
>>> 5.12 (really?):
>>
>> My version of Perl is 5.26.1 and I have not had any issues. I run on
>> Linux, though, so this does not help you, but I think this means that MH
>> on Linux plays nicer with Perl than on Windows.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Eloy Paris.-
>>
>>
> 
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