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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
July 6, 2007 05:42
Subject:
Re: Beyond 5.10
Message ID:
860FB6E3-5297-49D0-95FE-BD9C717E7BFD@fsck.com
On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:00 AM, Johan Vromans wrote:
> 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.
Where should these assumptions/criteria be documented?
-jesse
> -- Johan
>
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