On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 03:40:06AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote:
> *Richard Braakman wrote:
> > I still don't see anything that will keep a system from breaking when
> > perl 5.005 is installed, though. Saying "upgrade everything" is not
> > good enough -- we support partial upgrades. If a user installs one
> > package from the new distribution, and this pulls in the new perl, and
> > that breaks every other perl module on the system, then there is a
> > problem.
<snip>
> I do see a problem though. What about scripts ? Scripts should all
> point to /usr/bin/perl, but we need simultaneous versions of perl. I
> guess /etc/alternatives can only point to one perl at a time. But
> some scripts will need different versions depending on which modules
> they are using. I am confused, maybe I don't understand something.
If it needs external modules I'm going to suggest that such programs use
a specific perl binary...
> Does it make sense to set the unversioned perl library path to be last
> in @INC in perl5.005, so any modules that were not upgraded will be
> found there ?
No, there are some massive issues with that which makes it more of a
headache then (IMHO) its worth..
(Incompatible stuff, among other things)
>
> btw. Here is an interesting bit from A. Cox from this week on lsb-discuss
> Im very concerned we don't try and mandate perl too much. Every tiny
> subrelease of perl breaks something different, and there is no formal
> grammar for perl to reference against that I can find.
>
> Perl is a bigger nightmare than libc variance
Alan knows what he is talking about, there is a reason why perl5.005
should not share stuff with perl5.004, lets make it a clean break, as we
did with libc5..
Zephaniah E. Hull.
>
> John
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