Felix Schulte wrote:

> Suse is going to ship their perl with sfio support enabled for Suse
> Linux 10.2 and Suse Enterprise server 11. How do you define the norm
> now?

By 'norm' I mean whatever 'Configure' does out of the box on Solaris. 
For example, other distributions choose to ship threaded perl by 
default, but we don't do that on Solaris because a) the vast majority of 
extensions aren't tested with it and b) it tends to blow up spectacularly.

As with most things Solaris-related we favour stability and 
predictability over almost everything else, and in the case of perl if 
people don't like our choices they can always build their own version.

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Alan Burlison
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