[Fedora-packaging] perl module MODULE_COMPAT
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Mon Apr 4 09:51:37 UTC 2005
Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 15:19 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
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>>[root at fedora64 perl5]# ls
>>5.8.0 5.8.1 5.8.2 5.8.3 5.8.4 5.8.5 5.8.6 site_perl vendor_perl
>>[root at fedora64 perl5]# pwd
>>/usr/lib64/perl5
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>>Hmm, FC4 still continues to have symlinks going back to 5.8.0 (RHEL3).
>>I think this is a mistake. We haven't maintained ABI compat that long
>>right?
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> What makes you think so?
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>>Dirs should have been removed when they are known to be incompatible.
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> Yes, but do we _know_ some of the above are incompatible?
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I recall Chip mentioning ABI broke sometime after 5.8.0. Maybe I'm wrong...
Warren
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