Jerry D. Hedden submitted: > Adds "" overload for threads objects. > * Do not propagate this patch into maint.
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > in bleadperl we have the "feature" pragma to turn on cool > features. I can't see making this a feature - seems like overkill to me. Nicholas Clark wrote: > Well, that then creates another problem. What $VERSION > should threads in maint report? > Doing this makes a code fork. I've been adopting the > policy of not merging code to released maint unless it > *is* an official release of the module on CPAN (for all > dual life modules). > Whereas there is no code fork if the code is identical, > but the *default* behaviour in 5.8.x is not to do this, > with the module having an import time option to turn it > on. It's trivial for code that knows that it wants this > feature from threads to be written to request that threads > enable it. [sigh] I guess this seems to be the concensus approach. I'll add it that way (i.e., an import flag) in the next release. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
