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Re: [1.7] perl updates
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:35:20PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:05:44PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>On 21/08/2009 03:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Erm... sorry, but why would you want to do this? Either you have a
>>>1.5 based installation running a 1.5 perl, or you have a 1.7 based
>>>installation running a 1.7 perl. If you have two independent Cygwin
>>>trees, one 1.5 and one 1.7, then there won't be any collision either.
>>>I really don't understand what that's good for.
>>
>>A lot of unnecessary work on my end, perhaps? I'm with you on this
>>one; please do NOT do this.
>
>Ditto. I thought we'd already gone down this path and decided not to
>make tests based on the cygwin version number. Presumably configure
>should be smart enough and fine-grained enough to make the required
>decisions without this.
Sorry. I pullled in configure here when it didn't make a lot of sense
but I really don't like the notion of using the cygwin version number
in any type of configuration.
cgf
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