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Subject: Re: Config file commentary.
From: Chan Wilson <cwilson @ slurp . neu . sgi . com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:16:39 +0200
To: "Alan Millar" <amillar @ bolis . com>
Cc: Brent @ greatcircle . com (Brent Chapman), majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:02:38." <m0uCLrQ-000Ur2C@hock.bolis.sf-bay.org>

> I cannot imagine a new list owner trying to get this right!  This 
> would REQUIRE a new interface to set these things.

Whoa, I never said the list owner would be exposed to that!  That'd be
cruel and inhumane. :)  Guess I should have made that clear.

> Also, there are still plenty of people still using Perl 4 out there.
> Despite the intrinsic value of, umm, "progress", a forced Perl 5
> upgrade would be an extra can of worms to throw in at the same time
> as a majordomo upgrade.

Mmmm, IMO, too much of the existing Majordomo code is trying to work
around perl4 bugs or restrictions.  I have absolutely no qualms about
Majordomo 2.0 requiring perl5.002.  Perl5 is a couple years old now
and is far better than perl4.

--Chan


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