Re: perl-5.18.4

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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:
> >>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.


Thanks,
Corinna

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