On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Matthew Persico wrote:
> Which leads me to the question:
>
> Where do we discuss where to install modules? The prime question being
> how do we keep modules installed for multiple versions of Perl? I
> haven't yet seen that discussion, but it is one I want to participate
> in.
That might be on the lib list, or possibly (well, remotely possibly) on
the internals list, as it's sort of a grubby detail.
There was discussion at TPC about supporting multiple versions of a module
installed simultaneously (not that anyone'd mention, say, GD, here...)
which would be nice, and I really do plan on getting anal about backwards
compatibility in the external interface so modules with non-perl code will
hopefully not need to be rebuilt often. I'd also like a way to
simultaneously support both a C and perl version of a module in case the C
bits *do* break, so perl can fall back.
But that's all grubby details, which probably need to be elsewhere.
Dan
