On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 05:26:40 +0200 (CEST), Dag Wieers wrote:
> > One important point, you are (or have been) effectively
dropping support
> > for every distro prior to FC1.
>
> No. That's what the perl-forward-compat package has been for:
>
>
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/8.0/i386/RPMS.stable/perl-forward...
Seems reasonable, only that it is yet again different than how it is
handled with python. I know the situation is a bit different, but the
implementation is completely different. (naming and how versioning works)
Yes, it's different, but it was subject to public discussion [1], and
none of the few people who had comments disagreed strongly.
With the new and automated 'python(abi) = ...' dependency in FC4 devel,
the solution on the Python side has become even more different, btw.
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[1]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2004-February/thread.html#0...