Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from March 2000
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:39:23PM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote: > Assume the worst. Assume that the hints file you write today is going > to be used _exactly as is_ for at least the next year, possibly > longer. Thus assume that folks will try to use perl-5.6.0 with > FreeBSD 5.1. > I would use neither 5.0* nor 5.*. I would simply use *. Sure, it's > quite possible that when someone tries to run this hints file a year > from now under 5.1 that the hints won't be exactly right. However, > the 5.0-based guess is probably more likely to be right than no guess > at all! > Sorry to go on so long about this. It really isn't that big a deal, > but it's also not hard to program defensively in this instance. I > can't see any reason not to. Thanks. With this explanation, I am totally convinced. Expect reworked patch as soon as I finish its testing on 3.4, 4.0, and 5.0. Cheers, -- Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk> The Protein Laboratory, University of CopenhagenThread Previous