why fully versionned vendorlib vendorbin and vendorarch?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 3 13:41:15 UTC 2011


On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:18:06 +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't get why we used versionned vendorbin, vendorarch and
> vendorlib with perl it seems to only provide us problems: need of
> perl-after-upgrade, reinstallation of most p5- things after even a
> simple 5.12.3 -> 5.12.4 upgrade?
>
> why not follow what is done by default by the build system and use a
> string (not versionned for those variable) like perl5_vendors or
> something like that?
>
> That would also allow user to upgrade from 5.12 to 5.14 almost
> painless. if really changing from 5.12 to 5.14 can lead to majors
> incompatibility problems (which I'm not convinced at all) we could 
> use
> perl5.12 but not including the minor version which still is not that
> good to me but way better.
>
> regards,
> Bapt
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As noone object I think that may say I can go ahead and fix that?

regards,
Bapt


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