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On 6/14/22 06:41, Tomasz Konojacki wrote: > The current situation is that private non-static functions are callable > from XS modules on all platforms *except Windows*. I have submitted a PR > that makes them non-callable on almost all the other platfroms: > > https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19655 > > It's a pretty major change and that PR hasn't received much attention, > so I'm making this post to get your opinions. > > This change will likely cause some CPAN breakage. I imagine there will > be three kinds of breakages: > > 1. Modules that call functions that shouldn't have been marked as > private. > > 2. Modules that call private functions for no reason and can be easily > patched to use public functions instead. > > 3. Modules that call private functions to accomplish something that > can't be done with public APIs > > 1 & 2 are easily fixable. Number three may require us to either design > new APIs or just expose the needed private APIs and call it a day. > > On #p5p, randir has expressed a concern that the breakage may be > unacceptable. My opinion is that we're very early in the release cycle > and we have plenty of time to deal with the potential fallout. Also, it > can't be *that* big considering that most of CPAN works on Windows just > fine. > > What does p5p think? I concur with your analysis. I've been waiting for this to be merged, and I think we should do it now, fixing things up as needed.Thread Previous | Thread Next