Re: New copyright program

On 08/19/2011 09:02 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:37:29PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 08/19/2011 07:31 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Kris Jurka wrote:
>>>> Did you also try the "use Tie::File" addition in my fix because your
>>>> current coding doesn't work at all.  The tie operation is key to actually
>>>> writing out the modified copyright notice.  Your version just updates the
>>>> copyright year in memory, but never gets it back to the file.
>>> Ah, that did fix it;  thanks.  I am attached the updated committed
>>> copyright.pl.  I also skipped symlinks.
>>>
>> It probably doesn't matter that much in this context, but I should
>> point out that Tie::File is not universally available. Some years
>> ago I had to revert its use in the buildfarm code for that reason.
>> In general we should try to avoid adding extra dependencies wherever
>> possible.
> Tie::File ships as part of core Perl for all non-EOL versions, so I
> really can't consider this as a problem.



Which are those?

cheers

andrew