[p4perl] Compiling p4perl for p4d ver. 2001/.1

[Tony Smith]

Hi.

> I am trying to compile p4perl ver 3.4804 on a Linux
> machine. We use Perforce server ver. 2001.1 on Solaris
> 8.
>
> I understand that I need to use a recent version of
> Perforce API to compile P4Perl successfully.
>
> My question is:
>
> As our Perforce server is an older version, is there a
> danger? That is, will p4perl update the db with
> entries that can be understood by recent versions of
> Perforce, but not the older releases?

It should be fine. I haven't explicitly tested P4Perl with an old server in a 
while, but P4Perl was designed from the beginning to work with many different 
server versions.

Either way, there's no 'danger': commands may fail, but that's just a fact of 
life.

Tony