Re: Perl 5.005.02
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Roderick Schertler, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>I don't think Andy is taking into account your plan of allowing both
>threaded and non-threaded Perls present on the system at the same time.
That's okay since a) threaded Perl has it's own architecture b)
experimental Perl releases will be in a completely different directory.
>It seems to me that the only real problem we've got with the current
>layout is that the *.pm files for extensions which have XS portions are
>placed in /usr/lib/perl5 rather than in /usr/lib/perl5/<arch>/<version>.
It used to do that before 5.004 I think. It doesn't do that anymore. I
had to fix perl-base's list of file to deal with this...
>Further, if the <version> part of that didn't necessarily track
>every new version, but only changed when a new version was binary
>incompatible, that would save even more recompilation. That is, if
Hmm. Maybe but that might be too dangerous.
Darren
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