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Postings from January 2004
Every time RC1 is released I have to go a nuke all my pre-RC1 installs and reinstall from scratch, including CPAN modules. So for example now we had 5.8.3-tobe which since 5.8.2 was released and until two days ago was called 5.8.2, causing @INC to have all these /5.8.2/ and perl binary to be perl5.8.2. Besides annoying it's error-prone. I've updated 5.8.3 to RC1 but all my synlinks still pointed to the older perl which was linked to perl5.8.2 (which in fact wasn't 5.8.2 but 5.8.3-tobe). Finally many times I get confused when I test with 5.8.3 but see 5.8.2 in the path. This is counterproductive for me and probably for other people who need to smoke projects with maint/blead perl. I've suggested to Nick to bump up a version number as soon as a new release is made. So for example when Nick releases 5.8.3, he could bump up the version number to 5.8.4 immediately. Nick explained that this suggestion is not very good, because some distros and users will install 5.8.4-tobe as 5.8.4 and then report bugs as if it was real 5.8.4. Which is not good and I agree with Nick. So how about having a configure option for those of us who have to smoke perl and don't want to waste time rebuilding things when RC1 is released. So for example once Nick releases 5.8.3 I'd change my build scripts to use ./Configure ... -Dperl_version=5.8.4 (not sure about the name, suggestions?) and once 5.8.4-RC1 is released, I'll just remove the above option. What do you think? __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:stas@stason.org http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.comThread Next