Re: An Inline question, and a user's experience: Fwd: Using Inline::CPP and Math::Primes::FastSieve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Oswald"

> Next: Dana identified that Inline will not install on Perl version
> 5.8.0 or earlier.  5.8.1 is ok.  The reason is because Digest::MD5 (a
> dependency of Inline, I believe) has an XS component that uses a
> feature that wasn't implemented until 5.8.1.  There is a bug report in
> the RT for Digest::MD5, as well as two recommended patches.  But the
> reports are fairly old, so I'm not sure if the author intends to fix
> them.  If you look at the smoke test matrix for Digest::MD5 you will
> find that starting with the most recent version, no Perl older than
> 5.8.1 has met with success.

There's a related bug report (which I never fully understood) at
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69884

I would've expected that Digest::MD5 was now under the maintainership of 
p5p, so approaces to get recent Digest::MD5 versions made backwards 
compatible would therefore be better directed there. (I could be wrong about 
that, but.)

Cheers,
Rob