[1.7] perl updates

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:05:44PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On 21/08/2009 03:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>Erm...  sorry, but why would you want to do this?  Either you have a
>>1.5 based installation running a 1.5 perl, or you have a 1.7 based
>>installation running a 1.7 perl.  If you have two independent Cygwin
>>trees, one 1.5 and one 1.7, then there won't be any collision either.
>>I really don't understand what that's good for.
>
>A lot of unnecessary work on my end, perhaps?  I'm with you on this
>one; please do NOT do this.

Ditto.  I thought we'd already gone down this path and decided not to
make tests based on the cygwin version number.  Presumably configure
should be smart enough and fine-grained enough to make the required
decisions without this.

cgf

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