On 11 Oct 1998 03:08:22 -0700, "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Andy Dougherty, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >> >> After some thought, I think I'd recommend that perl5.005_xx retain the >> same directory structure that perl5.00[34]_xx did. (with 5.005 in place of >> 5.00[34], of course). > > That's good enough for me. I have boatloads of respect for Andy and his > understanding of Perl Install issues. That's how it will be for > 5.005.02-3.
I don't think Andy is taking into account your plan of allowing both threaded and non-threaded Perls present on the system at the same time. It seems to me that the only real problem we've got with the current layout is that the *.pm files for extensions which have XS portions are placed in /usr/lib/perl5 rather than in /usr/lib/perl5/<arch>/<version>. If that were changed so that such modules behaved like core modules (placing both *.pm and *.so in the arch/version hierarchy) then only modules with *.so files would need to be reinstalled when a new version is installed. If this were in place previously then the recent 5.005 install would only have broken modules with XS portions, as it should have. Further, if the <version> part of that didn't necessarily track every new version, but only changed when a new version was binary incompatible, that would save even more recompilation. That is, if 5.006 doesn't break binary compatibility, I'd recommend that you continue to use /usr/lib/perl5/<arch>/5.005 rather than changing to /usr/lib/perl5/<arch>/perl5.006. -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
