John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, at least part of their rationale for the new scheme is to > allow multiple versions of perl, a feature that debian is not > interested in.
Threaded perl and non-threaded perl are binary-incompatible at the extension level, meaning most compiled extensions must be distinguishable. Furthermore, there was a lot of concern that most perl-only extensions are not yet thread-safe. Therefore, I believe, the decision was made to have all extensions, etc, reside in a "arch-directory" that would distinguish between thread and non-thread. So, yes, I think Debian does have to honor this, and to make our perl gratuitously different (which is to say, having it look in /usr/lib/perl5) would be inviting calamity some time down the road. I say this in full knowledge that I'm going to have to recompile a heap of perl modules next week. And I'm glad Darren didn't make a thrperl yet, so we don't have to deal with that issue immediately. Mike.