Can upset handle more than one prev: tag?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Christopher schrieb:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:36:33PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >>I want to keep two prvious perl version available, now I need to know:
> >>is more than one tag for 'prev:' or 'test:' in setup.hint files
> >>supported and handled correct by upset?  At least setup.exe seems to
> >>have no problems with more than one [prev] tag in setup.ini.
> 
> > I'm surprised that setup.exe has no problems with more than one prev
> > but upset only maintains one level, so any setup.hint -> setup.ini
> > translation will eat extra prev's.
> 
> > Why do you think you need multiple previous versions?
> 
> I stillkeep perl-5.6.1 at the mirrors for people who don't believe that
> the new perl-5.8 is ok.  Now I have updated to 5.8.5 and removed 5.8.2
> but got complaints because the postgres perl extension is linked against
> 5.8.2 DLL.  I need to rethink the package naming if it is not possible
> to get mroe than one prev tag into setup.ini (automatically, as
> mentioned it works well with setup.exe).
> 
> Gerrit

Is there any reason why we can't have a perl561 or perl_5_6_1 package?  
It can definitely co-exist with perl-5.8.*, the library is already 
versioned, and the executables can have the 561, 5.6.1, or _5_6_1 
suffix...
	Igor
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