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+Thrift Perl Software Library
+
+License
+=======
+
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+
+Using Thrift with Perl
+=====================
+
+Thrift requires Perl >= 5.6.0
+
+Exceptions are thrown with die so be sure to wrap eval{} statments
+around any code that contains exceptions.
+
+The 64bit Integers work only upto 2^42 on my machine :-?
+Math::BigInt is probably needed.
+
+Please see tutoral and test dirs for examples...
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+Bit::Vector     - comes with modern perl installations.
+Class::Accessor
+