On 2/21/06, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote:
> Felix Schulte wrote:
>
> > Suse is going to ship their perl with sfio support enabled for Suse
> > Linux 10.2 and Suse Enterprise server 11. How do you define the norm
> > now?
>
> By 'norm' I mean whatever 'Configure' does out of the box on Solaris.
> For example, other distributions choose to ship threaded perl by
> default, but we don't do that on Solaris because a) the vast majority of
> extensions aren't tested with it and b) it tends to blow up spectacularly.
Perls Configure did not care about testing for sfio support on Solaris
since Solaris never shipped with libast until now. The same problem
exists on Linux - but they are going to fix that. Now its Suns turn to
do the same.
> As with most things Solaris-related we favour stability and
> predictability over almost everything else, and in the case of perl if
> people don't like our choices they can always build their own version.
Which is tricky at best since the Sun version sits in the default
installation location for perl and applications choose to use that
version of perl. There is no easy drop in way to replace it.
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