https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804070
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804070#c14
--- Comment #14 from L. A. Walsh 2013-03-03 21:43:32 PST ---
This from the perl bug filed related to this:
bulk88 wrote:
...
Due to Perl's
current rapid release policy and maintenance patch policies, ABI changes
in minor versions are not necessary anymore. New or radically redesigned
(internally) features just dont get added anymore like they did in 5.8.
If the interp ABI compatibility system is ever reintroduced (not
likely), I would suggest a const table of offsets to the members in the
interp library, and a "*(SV
***)(char*)my_perl+PL_ginterpoffsets[ABI_STACK_SP]" for "PL_stack_sp".
...
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Can someone explain what the *technical* complaint or feature request
here is?
Are some vendor linux perl scripts in pure perl hard coded to check
$^V/$]? Or are the vendor Perls "XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK;" and
"XS_APIVERSION_BOOTCHECK;" modified to not allow forward compatibility
to newer minor releases (and when upgrading the perl to a newer minor
perl, all existing XS libs won't load)? Or are absolute versioned paths
to perl baked into the OS in C or on shebangs (why wouldn't symlinks fix
this?)? Or I want an XS lib compiled with 5.12.4 to load into a 5.16.1
process (change the current policy so major versions are compatible)?
Maybe Christian Rodriguez(crrodriguez@opensuse.org) can explain this, as he is
the one who claims this
is impossible to support.
cr
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