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This is a full rewrite of inxi, in Perl. Many complicated issues with data manipulation should be resolved by moving to Perl 5.08. Note that 5.08 has been selected as the cutoff because that helps fulfill inxi's job of running on anything, ancient machines, newer machines, and anything in between. I debated using 5.10 as the cutoff, but that came into many large distros way too late, some as late as 2010, so I opted to accept the limitations of Perl 5.08 and live with them. <br><br> I'm hoping that some long standing headaches with data processing and line printing, and possibly also language pack support and alternate output formats (like json or xml) will be resolved in this rewrite. <br><br> Don't hold your breaths, it's going to take a long time, unless I get decent contributions, but those won't be meaningful until I get the core initialization, startup, logging, debugger, and print out logic fully implemented. After that it will be a fairly mechanical translation of bash/gawk data generators and bash output handlers into Perl.
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