On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 11:08 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm not sure what you're complaining about Roger. Perl applications are written in Perl, they shouldn't have binary dependencies.
Not a complaint. I was trying to support what the openSUSE guys have done. Re Perl (and similar libs): This is not about Perl scripts. It is about programs that access Perl via a compiled library. If you link with version X, you are safest running only with that version. The complaint was that, previously, openSUSE apps like YaST did not get built so they required a specific libperl version. That has now been changed as Perl libs are not backward ABI compatible. This means that YaST requires a specific Perl version. Which is, I guess, the 'system' Perl. You are not free to change that as Perl provides no mechanism to maintain ABI compatibility in a single Perl install. So you cannot have one system Perls that is ABI compatible with previous versions.
Perl's backwards compatibility policies are set out at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html
Where they say they do not do backward compatibility. Which makes the currently described limit necessary. Anyway, I was not complaining. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org