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 The CPAN version will not emit such a warning. 14 15The entire Perl 4 approach to libraries was largely superseded in Perl 165.000 by the system of module namespaces and ".pm" files.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. 22 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. 27 28INSTALLATION 29 30 perl Build.PL 31 ./Build 32 ./Build test 33 ./Build install 34 35AUTHOR 36 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 (Most of these email addresses are probably out of date.) 45 46Known contributing authors for the tests in this package are Tom 47Christiansen 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>. 50 51Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> built the Perl4::CoreLibs package. 52 53COPYRIGHT 54 55Copyright (C) 1987-2009 Larry Wall et al 56 57Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> 58 59LICENSE 60 61This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 62under the same terms as Perl itself. 63