On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 01:37:04AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > Hmmm. Going with "Thread" does complicate things in that we do > > currently have "lib/Thread/Semaphore.pm"... it currently is 5.005 > > threads interface. If I just dump the ithreads version in its place, > > no more semaphores for old threads code. > > Not a big loss. Just rename it: Thread::Semaphore5005 (or move it into > a different directory that a "use lib" could enable access to).
I opted for installperl doing dirty tricks, so that the old versions aren't installed except only when use5005threads is true. > The old threads code was a failed experiment that people shouldn't > be using in production. People who need to keep using it should > live with 5.6.x. > > The 5.8.x code is so much better, and such a fundamental change, > that anyone upgrading should expect to have to rework any code that > uses threads. > > Tim. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
