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Leon Timmermans
Date:
November 29, 2011 09:08
Subject:
Re: what's "use VERSION" all about?
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> wrote:
> How does it simplify things at all? I don't really see how the
> implementation would be anything other than identical, and having a
> single interface rather than two seems simpler conceptually to me.

Well, you can combine it with feature to be more explicit about what
you want. For example you can easily enable all feature of one
versions and all newer bugfixes at the same time:

 use feature ':5.16';
 no legacy ':5.16'

Leon
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