At 02:39 PM 3/14/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Charles Bailey wrote:
>
> > > In looking over the Bourne shell version of Configure I'd say replace
> > > them with "5_005" or simply apply the patch that I sent to the list a
> > > bit earlier. It does not appear that you want ''version' in
> xs_apiversion
> > > or pm_apiversion (although there is enough flexibility in patchlevel.h to
> > > accomodate version being the same as the {xs|pm}_apiversion.
> >
> > This probably is true of pm_apiversion, but we constrain xs_apiversion by
> > the GSMATCH restrictions under VMS. (I hope we'll eliminate this for
> 5.6.1,
> > at which time xs_apiversion can be relaxed considerably.)
>
>OK. Am I interpreting your comment correctly: "I hope we'll eliminate
>GSMATCH
>restrictions by 5.6.1"? Or something else? Thanks.
Personally I'm hoping that, as of 5.6.1, we can have binary compatibility
across sub-versions for VMS. I'd have liked to get it in for 5.6.0 (so it'd
be available for 5.6.1) but there's no time. (I think--5.6.0's release
keeps getting pushed off because of bugs being found, but I don't want to
introduce any new features until it's out)
Dan
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