On Thu, 12 May 2005, Branko Ä^Libej wrote: > William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: [ ... ] > >Yes - I see Python 2.3 / Mod Perl 5.8 / Apache 2.0 / APR > >0.9 / etc all in the same 'generation' of code. > > > >Do you want the ASF to be a leader of this 'breakage' as > >the Python project was? This is why the push back. > > > >And I hope for Python 2.4 / Apache 2.2 / APR 2.0 / etc to > >all be of the next 'generation', finally adopting > >msvcr70. Seem rational? > > > > > I can live with that.
That sounds great, but one consideration from the point of view of Perl (eg, mod_perl) is that the dominant Win32 Perl binary, from ActiveState, uses VC 6 to compile, and they don't have any plans soon of changing that. But that might change by the next generation. -- best regards, randy kobes