[ On Monday, January 10, 2005 at 17:17:15 (-0500), Todd Vierling wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: And speaking of PKGREVISION: Perl version bumping
>
> Now, Perl 6 is such a major change that it will require the type of
> separation you suggest -- but likely not in the way you are currently
> envisioning, as it is itself radically different from Perl 5.  So doing the
> work right now for zero present gain may actually be a gross waste of time.

OK, well I can certainly agree with that.

I sure don't envy the maintainers of popular language interpreters!  :-)

I'm not much of a perl fanatic and I really would be just as happy to
only have one installed at a time, so long as it "Just Works(tm)".

But I do like having multiple versions of some other "moving target"
interpreters installed simulataneously!  :-)


> If there's only one version of perl[5] in pkgsrc, what's the difference?

Well as long as the perl guys really do maintain language API and
loadable module ABI compatability, none.  :-)

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