<div dir="ltr">sub run_test { say "test passed")<br clear="all"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"> בברכה | Best Regards, </span></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">דוב לוונגליק | Dov Levenglick </font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Shlomi Fish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@shlomifish.org" target="_blank">shlomif@shlomifish.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Date: Tue, 9 Oct <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a> 17:23:56 +0900<br>
From: Shmuel Fomberg <<a href="mailto:shmuelfomberg@gmail.com">shmuelfomberg@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Shlomi Fish <<a href="mailto:shlomif@shlomifish.org">shlomif@shlomifish.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] DB_File->fd returns 0 on Windows<br>
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Hi Shlomi.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> 1. Why have you not reported this bug here -<br>
> <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=DB_File" target="_blank">https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=DB_File</a> . How do you<br>
> expect<br>
> this problem to be fixed at the core otherwise?<br>
><br>
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</div>Because obviously the bug was already found and reported - otherwise the<br>
author wouldn't have known to comment out the test.<br>
That, and the fact that the list is full of years-old bugs.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> 2. Why aren't you using <a href="http://metacpan.org/release/BerkeleyDB" target="_blank">http://metacpan.org/release/BerkeleyDB</a><br>
> instead of DB_File ?<br>
><br>
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</div>Because it is core, and in that application, reducing dependencies is<br>
important.<br>
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Shmuel.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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