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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:24:49AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > 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 should be fine, assuming a new CPAN libwin32 and standalone Win32 > get released before 5.8.9. If it were a non-core module that the > "not be able to use" applied to, I can see reason to keep it out of > maint, but the core Win32 *is* 0.27, and there's no reason the core > should need to work with an older Win32. The installing-libwin32- > downgrading-Win32 thing is just an artifact of the planned changes > not being quite complete. > > Does this make sense? Yes, except excuse my ignorance on one thing: If you upgrade to 5.8.9, can existing installed modules stop working? (I'm not entirely sure which parts of what is being discussed is in the Win32 module in the core, and which parts are installed from CPAN) Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next