Re: Perl policy / Plans for the upgrade

To: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
Cc: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Perl policy / Plans for the upgrade
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:09:59 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 19990616210959.C3319@perlsupport.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSU.4.05.9906161452190.248-100000@newton.phys>; from Andy Dougherty on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 03:14:41PM -0400
References: <19990616194511.A576@p200.hrnet.fr> <Pine.GSU.4.05.9906161452190.248-100000@newton.phys>

According to Andy Dougherty:
> It's just that on a philosophical level, a policy that says you
> are not allowed to do something (in this case have 5.00503 and 5.00504
> simultaneously) rubs me the wrong way.

I agreed at first.  But given the number of packages that depend on
Perl and Perl libraries, I think it's already Above and Beyond the
Call of Duty to support more than one major version, never mind the
maintenance subversions.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."

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