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authorSteffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>2009-09-02 20:14:52 +0200
committerSteffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>2009-09-02 20:14:52 +0200
commit42cb3b6d01c213ff7daf09d23f012bd467bea3aa (patch)
tree6272d5dafe2b60879784a24221d730301be337f9 /lib
parentd9591f87ff50af3a58bed017b7ac5c2a5c448219 (diff)
downloadperl-42cb3b6d01c213ff7daf09d23f012bd467bea3aa.tar.gz
Deprecate importenv.pl with a warning
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/importenv.pl b/lib/importenv.pl
index 0401127f18..75274c2659 100644
--- a/lib/importenv.pl
+++ b/lib/importenv.pl
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
+# compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
+
+warn( "The 'importenv.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
+ . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the"
+ . " Env::Export module (or similar) from CPAN instead." );
+
;# This file, when interpreted, pulls the environment into normal variables.
;# Usage:
;# require 'importenv.pl';