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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:13:03AM -0800, Jan Dubois wrote: > > Yes, and the forwarder() function (now in ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c > > requires Win32 version 0.27 or later: Therefore you will not be able > > to use old versions of the Win32 module with bleadperl anymore. > > Um. > > I was working on the assumption that all the movement/rearrangement of > the win32 directory, win32/ext and the Win32 modules was appropriate > to replicate in maint. > > But "not be able to use" doesn't seem a good thing for maint. It is indeed a bit worrisome, and I have to admit that I didn't even realize this problem before today. But assuming I re-release an otherwise unchanged libwin32 without the Win32 module to CPAN would that be good enough? Or do we imply that you can install any older CPAN version of a core module on the latest maintenance release and it will still work? Of course this would be nice, but it is not always possible. E.g. you cannot install Scalar-List-Utils 1.07 into Perl 5.8.8 without breaking overload::strVal (because of the missing refaddr()), even though 1.07 was bundled with 5.8.0 and overload.pm didn't care back then. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next