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The comment in the code slightly above says: this doesn't work in perl 5.6.2! grrrr So this code is at least 20 years old, and probably pre-2000.
by leejo 5y ago
The comment in the code slightly above says:
this doesn't work in perl 5.6.2! grrrr
So this code is at least 20 years old, and probably pre-2000.
- sebcat 5y agohttps://exiftool.org/ancient_history.html https://exiftool.org/ancient_history.html Sept. 26, 2008 - Version 7.44 - Added read support for DjVu images There were probably enough systems running perl 5.6.2 around 2008 to cause bug reports, or the code was migrated from an older piece of code and added to ExifTool. It was not uncommon to manually ./configure, make, make install tarballs locally in those days, especially not on systems like Slackware so I can see it being possible to have old packages installed that were not automagically updated.