[ITP] perl-5.8.8

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul  2 19:06, Reini Urban wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> >- Your package pollutes the /usr/bin directory with two versions of
> >  *almost* every tool in the perl package, foo, foo5.8.8, bar, bar5.8.8,
> >  etc.  The former 5.8.7 package only created a perl5.8.8 parallel to
> >  the perl exe, but all other binaries were only available without
> >  versioning, same as in the Linux distros I have my hands on, btw.
> 
> This is intended and current practice for perl developers with a lot of 
> different perl versions around to test their libraries against.

Erm... that's ok for *your* test and build machines, but this is a
stable release you're planning, not a test version.


Corinna

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