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On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 03:22:09PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Currently perl -V produces output like:
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
> Compile-time options: DEBUGGING HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS
> PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
...
>
> which personally I find very hard visually to spot whether a particular
> option is there, particularly due to the mix of ' ' and '_'. I'd like to
> change it to something like:
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
> Compile-time options:
> DEBUGGING
> HAS_TIMES
> MULTIPLICITY
> PERLIO_LAYERS
> PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
> PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
...
>
> Any opinions?
The discussion came out as 6 in favour of one per line, while 3 wanted
multi-column, multi-space, or full list with +/-. So I've gone with the
one per line. I've also made this stuff one per line too.
osname=linux, osvers=4.4.11-200.fc22.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
8dd2ecb perl -V: make configuration one per line
0bac45c perl -V: make 'Compile-time options' one per line
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