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Re: perl-5.18.4


2015-01-19 4:02 GMT-06:00 Corinna Vinschen:
> On Jan 19 10:36, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 1/19/2015 9:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Jan 15 18:51, Achim Gratz wrote:

>>I've finally managed to produce a working Perl including debuginfo via
cygport.

Thanks!

>> >>Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> >>>However, why does a bump from 5.x to 5.y require a rebuild of other
>> >>>packages?  Is the perl stuff backward incompatible from one minor
>> >>>version to the other?!?
>> >>
>> >>Anything linked against the Perl DLL must be rebuilt.
>> >
>> >Still, why?  Is it real backward incompat, or just due to DLL
>> >versioning?  Does DLL versioning really make sense here?  Usually, if
>> >the new DLL is only providing new stuff but not breaking backward
>> >compat, we're not bumping the DLL version.
>> >
>> >
>> >Corinna
>>
>> looking at the Changelog, they are breaking API

>> http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5180delta.html#Incompatible-Changes
>> http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5200delta.html#Incompatible-Changes
>
> Oh well.

Yes.

BTW: 5.22 will be about 1.8 times faster on perl-heavy tasks.


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