On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 07:34 AM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:11:04AM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
>> Hey Jarkko,
>>
>> I recall a previous message[1] from Wilfredo Sanchez in which he said
>> that using the -flat-namespaces linker flag was "the easy way" to get
>> perl working on OS X, but that leaving it out was "the right way". I
>> see that perl@13687 is still using -flat-namespaces, though.
>
> Yup, because no one has told us of any "right way".
I am presently of the opinion that -flat_namespace is The Right Way
and that two-level namespace is a hack to give Mac developers something
like what they are used to, whatever that is. On the assumption that we
can deal with symbol conflicts in the same way we always have,
-flat_namespace seems just fine.
-Fred
