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Jan Dubois wrote: >>Also, I don't actually care about 5.8.0/5.8.1 binary compatibility, as we >>didn't ship either version. I'd therefore like to permenantly enable the >>new behaviour so that I don't have to take a potential prrformance hit, and >>so I don't have to break binary compatibility in the future. Is there going >>to be a Configure flag to allow me to do this? > > I'm surprised that you are worried about breaking binary compatibility in > the future given how cavalier you are about breaking it right now. Is it > just because breaking it now doesn't affect yourself? :) I care about breaking binary compatibility, I'm just less than convinced that in this case it can be entirely avoided, and if it can't be entirely avoided I'd prefer 100% breakage instead of random nasty surprises. Even if the various fixes *appear* to work I'd not be prepared to trust them myself anyway, I'd recompile. I care about it in general because if binary compatibility is broke I have to ship two versions of perl, and that is more more aggro for me. -- Alan Burlison --Thread Previous | Thread Next