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From: Andy Dougherty [mailto:doughera@lafayette.edu] > On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Marquess wrote: > > > > From: Steve Hay [mailto:steve.m.hay@googlemail.com] > > > > > > But what about people who have, say, 5.10.1 installed, and then > > > upgrade to 5.10.2 in the same installation directory? They should > be > > > backwards-compatible, so that should work without having to start > over > > > with a fresh perl installation, but if we switch to the logic above > > > and revert the corresponding core change to installperl and > > > win32/FindExt.pm to match then the 5.10.2 files will go into lib > and > > > won't be seen because of existing 5.10.1 files already in archlib. > > > > Do people actually do that? Any time I ever upgrade, I start from > scratch > > and wipe the old one. > > > > > I think you're right that it doesn't need to stay in archlib > > > long-term, but I think it has to stay where it is for 5.10.x. > > > > I'm happy to go along with that if in-place upgrades are likely to be > a > > problem. > > Yes. In-place upgrades are supposed to work smoothly, so the 5.10.1 > behaviour should be maintained throughout the 5.10.x series, as long as > that's not overly burdensome. OK, thanks. PaulThread Previous | Thread Next