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From:
Johan Vromans
Date:
July 6, 2007 00:00
Subject:
Re: Beyond 5.10
Message ID:
m2zm2arp7o.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> writes:

> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
>> [...] perl modules compiled against perl-5.8.9
>> will no longer work under perl-5.8.8. 
>
> I don't think this direction has ever been guaranteed, 

Actually, I'd expect any 5.8.x release to be forward and backward
compatible with any other 5.8.x, modulo bugs.
That is one of the things that went wrong with 5.8.1.

-- Johan
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