Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few questions, comments, and thoughts. 1. In building my own

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue ;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm). As for the description issue, even the one

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On 19 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue ;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm). No real

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My main concern is that they neither bunch up on the dpkg select screen, nor is it easy to search for perl modules in dselect (I'd like to be able to find all the perl modules by searching on perl). BTW, I maintain alias and www-search (and libwww-perl

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Scott Ellis, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Mark Eichin
this since he asked for it a while back. The upgrade to libc6 for perl can't happen until there is a libgdbm compatible with it though since I refuse to break everyone's dbm interfaces. I'll also be able to release Great - as soon as I get some consensus on package naming, I'll try to put