Re: patch for LWP 5.05 to make it play with both 5.003 and 5.003_20 + overload patch

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
15 Jan 1997 09:21:40 +0100


Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

> Here it is (wiping sweat off brow), tested with both _11 and
> _20+patches.  You *must* get the overload patch from P5P or nothing
> from _17 on will work.  I presume _21 (and 5.004) will have the overload
> patch built in.

Thanks!

> Eventually, the _init_implementor method can be completely eliminated
> when the world has moved on to 5.004.

Unless there is some subclasses that I have never heard of that
override this method.  There are interfaces everywhere :-)

It is perhaps better to wait with elimination until we begin to
implement URLs according to the new specifications.  A lot of things
should become simpler (and perhaps change) then.

Regards,
Gisle