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Postings from July 2001
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:31:01PM -0400, "Michael G Schwern" wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:00:27PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > *** Why should XML-RPC be in the core? ***
> > Once XML-RPC is a standard part of the core, we can begin to integrate
> > networked services with standard Perl tools.
>
> Of course, you can do this already, with or without it being in the
> core. Putting XML::RPC into the core will *appear* to make it easier,
> but the problem is you have to assume everyone's going to be using
> 5.8.0 (or 5.8.1 more likely). That should be a safe assumption
> somewhere around 2003. I'm not exagerating, 5.005_03 was out in 1999
> and that's as far forward as I'm daring to assume people have
> installed.
>
It's a substantial effort from here to get people to move to 5.6.1... :-)
That being said -- putting juicy tidbits into later versions of perl,
certainly increases the ammo when it comes to selling an upgrade to
people.
mark
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