Re: Perl mysteries.
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 02:35:50PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > I don't know what's the point of having two versions of perl included,
> > anyway. Will anyone actually use the old version, when no modules are
> > compiled against it and it might cause newer code depending on just perl5 to
> > break?
>
> We have two versions because everybody whined about being forced to
> recompile their modules, plus there are lots of (non-debian-packaged)
> modules built against 5.004 that we have no control over. Think
> "transition period".
Sure, but the transition is over now, after brave work by Raphael and others
who recompiled anything depending on perl...
> Any package that actually depends on 5.005 but whose "Depends:" says
> perl5 is broken and needs to be fixed.
Sure, but actually I meant break as in unable to load any modules, because
it's running as perl-5.004 as /usr/bin/perl... that situation shouldn't
happen. There was a RC bug filed about this, but I think it was downgraded.
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