Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

Sam Vilain [off-list ref] writes:

Checking in Module::CoreList, that module goes right back to the Perl
5.0 release, so every normal Perl 5 distribution should have it.

Good digging, but IIRC this thread started because something
that _claims_ to be 5.8 does not grok open(F, '-|') correctly,
so...