Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.bs file

[Jonathan Marsden]

On 1 Jan 2003, marc bigler writes:

> Can someone tell me if the PERL file Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.bs which
> resides in the local site_perl dir is required ? Or what is it used
> for ?

> I am asking this because my IMAP.bs file is 0 kb and I am currently
> packaging Cyrus IMAP so I was wondering if I could simply ignore
> this file.

Keep it.  I am 99% sure this marks the associated IMAP.pm file (or the
functions/methods/objects it contains) as being 'blessed'.  

If you run

   find /usr/lib/perl5/ -name "*.bs" |xargs ls -l

you will see many such *.bs files within your Perl library setup, all
zero length.

I'm not enough of a Perl OO wizard to be sure of the details, though,
can someone else provide a pointer to the perl documentation on this
issue?

Jonathan
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