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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:58:31PM +0200, Konovalov, Vadim Vladimirovich (Vadim) wrote:
> > >This code *duplicates* the work already done in the CRTL,
> > thus lead to
> > >double translations (as easy examples show).
> >
> > That is NOT the intent. The intent is that crlf layer is used when:
> > A. The OS CRTL does not do that (e.g. reading DOSISH files on UNIX).
> > B. When the CRTL is buggy and inefficient (e.g. Borland and
> > VC++ C on Win32).
>
> (speaking of layers in general)
> C. To implement transparent pack/unpack/encode/crypt via something like PerlIO::gzip layer.
> D. utf
> There are probably more to add, by I'm not that knowledgable.
>
> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending *them*
a bill...
(I could understand charging if there were a *support contract* of some
sort in place, e.g. they promise to do something about a reported bug
(e.g. a suppport engineer would answer, not necessarily *fix* the bug...)
within some time limit.)
Send bug reports from one-time anonymous hotmail accounts? :-)
> And that bug makes perl compiled by Borland not to pass test suite ...
>
> Best wishes,
> <!ENTITY Vadim REALLIFE "Vadim V.Konovalov, St.Petersburg, Russia">
> &Vadim;
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