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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
July 5, 2007 16:08
Subject:
Re: Beyond 5.10
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.64.0707051905300.26645@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Alexey Tourbin wrote:

> (Another "unfixable" problem which I managed to fix somehow is that
> perl-5.8.9-to-be snapshots are not forward binary-compatible with
> perl-5.8.8 release; that is, perl modules compiled against perl-5.8.9
> will no longer work under perl-5.8.8.  This is what one must know
> before switching to maint-5.8 snapshots.)

I don't think this direction has ever been guaranteed, though it's great 
if you can make it work.  However, modules compiled against perl-5.8.8 
should still be usable under 5.8.9-to-be.  The default @INC order is 
designed to accomodate those ideas.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu
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