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1NAME
2
3Perl4::CoreLibs - libraries historically supplied with Perl 4
4
5DESCRIPTION
6
7This is a collection of ".pl" files that have historically been bundled
8with the Perl core but are planned not to be so distributed with
9core version 5.15 or later. Relying on their presence in the core
10distribution is deprecated; they should be acquired from this CPAN
11distribution instead. From core version 5.13, until their removal,
12it is planned that the core versions of these libraries will emit a
13warning when loaded. The CPAN version will not emit such a warning.
14
15The entire Perl 4 approach to libraries was largely superseded in Perl
165.000 by the system of module namespaces and ".pm" files. Most of the
17libraries in this collection predate Perl 5.000, but a handful were
18first introduced in that version. Functionally, most have been directly
19superseded by modules in the Perl 5 style. These libraries should not
20be used by new code. This collection exists to support old Perl programs
21that predates satisfactory replacements.
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23Most of these libraries have not been substantially maintained in the
24course of Perl 5 development. They are now very antiquated in style,
25making no use of the language facilities introduced since Perl 4.
26They should therefore not be used as programming examples.
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28INSTALLATION
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30 perl Build.PL
31 ./Build
32 ./Build test
33 ./Build install
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35AUTHOR
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37Known contributing authors for the libraries in this package are
38Brandon S. Allbery, John Bazik, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com>,
39Charles Collins, Joe Doupnik <JRD@CC.USU.EDU>, Marion Hakanson
40<hakanson@cse.ogi.edu>, Waldemar Kebsch <kebsch.pad@nixpbe.UUCP>,
41Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk>, <A.Macpherson@bnr.co.uk>, Randal
42L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>, Aaron Sherman <asherman@fmrco.com>,
43Wayne Thompson, Larry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>, and Ilya
44Zakharevich. (Most of these email addresses are probably out of date.)
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46Known contributing authors for the tests in this package are Tom
47Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com>, Alexandr Ciornii (alexchorny at
48gmail.com), Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>, Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>,
49and David Sundstrom <sunds@asictest.sc.ti.com>.
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51Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> built the Perl4::CoreLibs package.
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53COPYRIGHT
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55Copyright (C) 1987-2009 Larry Wall et al
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57Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>
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59LICENSE
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61This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
62under the same terms as Perl itself.
63