-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few questions, comments, and thoughts.
1. In building my own perl kit for other machines I maintain, I noticed the option to maintain binary module compatibility with 5.003 at the expense of a poluted namespace. I assume this option was chosen for the debian package. 2. I also assume that perl being compiled for glibc is going to end up being a flag day for all the binary compiled perl modules. May I suggest that that would be the ideal time to compile perl with a clean namespace. Perhaps upload such a version of perl into experimental to allow the perl module developers time to get new versions of their packages released. I expect that liberal useage of versioned depends would be necessary to prevent anything from actually breaking. 3. I also think that any package that provides a perl module should be labled as such in its package name. Package names like www-search and alias hardly suggest that this is a perl module I'd like to install. CGI-modules is hardly better. 4. I am also concerned about the ease of upgrading the bundled modules, especially CGI.pm and the other CGI:: modules. While I realize they are included in the upstream perl kit, the CGI modules especially are likely to be upgraded at a far greater rate than perl is. Does perl look at the site-perl directory before looking in its normal librarys? +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Scott K. Ellis | Argue for your limitations and | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sure enough, they're yours. | | | -- Illusions | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM4ECmdH31Ek1qsc9AQEXogP+OBC6N78YCVZ8i6KVGHFmySuwg/zRuLvS C1RbGL/CyQ9pX8VtjW+uNcJcIHxO+uR1uajG1C/pdPs/ZlmCC+lNXh5X+E+R3Wlb 8txLSdFXEf0IzCXKSzorLsRkHQf4Fwmg3giONRRJGRps1dV82uLedK+TSYvveCHS LRC2ar/+riU= =jT7o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .