[ic] Perl bundled modules assumptions patch

Jon Jensen jon at endpoint.com
Fri Mar 13 18:41:06 UTC 2009


Folks,

As the years wear on, Perl comes bundled with more and more standard 
modules that once were optional. The current development version of 
Interchange requires Perl 5.8.5, and because of that there are at least 
three modules which can now be assumed to be installed if Interchange runs 
at all:

Digest::MD5
MIME::Base64
Storable

Those were standard at least as far back as Perl 5.8.3 (according to 
perlmodlib).

Attached is a patch that removes the extra checks and a fallback behavior 
Interchange has in case those modules are missing.

Can anyone think of any downside to applying this patch? Are there other 
modules that should get the same treatment?

Thanks,
Jon

-- 
Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
http://www.endpoint.com/
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