Re: CPAN version release incompatible with bleadperl

2007-02-05 Thread John Peacock
Adam Kennedy wrote: > John Peacock wrote: >> Adam Kennedy wrote: >>> What does this mean for bugs though? >> >> But that's true of any new features of v5.10.0 that cannot be >> backported to >> maintperl. > > But what's true? :) I mean that *any* new feature introduced in v5.10.0 could have bugs

Re: CPAN version release incompatible with bleadperl

2007-02-05 Thread John Peacock
Adam Kennedy wrote: > What does this mean for bugs though? But that's true of any new features of v5.10.0 that cannot be backported to maintperl. > If 5.005 can upgrade to blead functionality, but 5.10 can't, does that > mean early 5.10 versions will have no recourse to being fixed? Because blea

Re: CPAN version release incompatible with bleadperl

2007-02-05 Thread John Peacock
Adam Kennedy wrote: > Can I ask the obvious question of why on earth you have a CPAN release > that is incompatible with bleadperl? The XS code that is in the CPAN release is C code in bleadperl core (and has been since 5.9.1?). The CPAN release is intended only as a compatibility module for earl

Re: CPAN version release incompatible with bleadperl

2007-02-03 Thread Adam Kennedy
John Peacock wrote: I need to mark the CPAN release of version.pm as being incompatible with bleadperl, i.e. 5.9.0 or better, since version.pm is included in bleadperl. All existing code is predicated on a minimum release, not a maximum release. What I'm wondering is what shape should my code t

Re: CPAN version release incompatible with bleadperl

2007-02-03 Thread Ken Williams
On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from John Peacock # on Saturday 03 February 2007 06:48 am: existing code is predicated on a minimum release, not a maximum release. What I'm wondering is what shape should my code take to convey this behavior. Hi John, Can this not be spe

Re: CPAN version release incompatible with bleadperl

2007-02-03 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from John Peacock # on Saturday 03 February 2007 06:48 am: >existing code is predicated on a minimum release, not a maximum > release.  What I'm wondering is what shape should my code take to > convey this behavior. Hi John, Can this not be specified in the 'requires' field of the prereqs?