why fully versionned vendorlib vendorbin and vendorarch?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 3 13:49:50 UTC 2011


On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:24:32 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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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