[p4] P4 (perl module) code examples?

[Finn Normann Pedersen]

Hi,

We recently experimented with the perl module ;) It works quite well 
once you get to know it and it's faster than calling the p4 executable, 
which we did in scripts earlier.

The bad things we found was:
  - Bad documentation...  better get a  version of  etherreal  and snoop 
how communication with the server really happen.
  - Quick note on bad documentation: The View parameter in the client 
spec (FormatClientSpec) is an array! Not a string reference like all the 
other parameters.
  - Some functions wern't implemented, though documenation said they 
were. Especially the FormatLabelSpec was absent. It was quite simple to 
fix, basically you just wrap up a hash structure.

Unfortunately I cannot share any of our code, but if you have specific 
questions, do email me next week.

Cheers, Finn


David Alban wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Does anyone have, or know of any examples of perl code using the P4 perl
> module <http://search.cpan.org/~smee/P4-3.5313/P4.pm> that they could
> legally/ethically make available to me, or towards which they could
> point me?  Something other than example.pl that comes with the
> distribution?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>