On Jan 19 10:36, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 1/19/2015 9:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jan 15 18:51, Achim Gratz wrote: > >>Corinna Vinschen writes: > >>>However, why does a bump from 5.x to 5.y require a rebuild of other > >>>packages? Is the perl stuff backward incompatible from one minor > >>>version to the other?!? > >> > >>Anything linked against the Perl DLL must be rebuilt. > > > >Still, why? Is it real backward incompat, or just due to DLL > >versioning? Does DLL versioning really make sense here? Usually, if > >the new DLL is only providing new stuff but not breaking backward > >compat, we're not bumping the DLL version. > > > > > >Corinna > > looking at the Changelog, they are breaking API > http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5180delta.html#Incompatible-Changes > http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5200delta.html#Incompatible-Changes
Oh well. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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