Re: Perl mysteries.
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:13:36AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Maybe an additional Conflicts: perl-5.004-suid would work?
>
> Why? There's no conflict there.
Maybe I got something wrong... sorry.
> > 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?
>
> - people might want to test code on perl-5.004 to see if it works
> there as well as on perl-5.005 or perl-5.6. Since it is possible
> to have multiple versions of perl on a machine, it would make sense
> to allow it.
Yeah, but how many people will actually need this? Is it worth it?
> - if newer code needs perl-5.005, it should have a "use 5.005;" or
> "require 5.005;" pragma in the code, and the package should Depend:
> perl-5.005 | perl-5.6 (or whatever).
Right, I meant unable to load modules while running under perl-5.004, see my
reply to Steve's message...
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