Adam Kennedy wrote: > What does this mean for bugs though? But that's true of any new features of v5.10.0 that cannot be backported to maintperl.
> If 5.005 can upgrade to blead functionality, but 5.10 can't, does that > mean early 5.10 versions will have no recourse to being fixed? Because bleadperl and v5.10.0 have a new version-object-aware UNIVERSAL::VERSION, they have to have version objects be a first-class object within the core. That same code can be run under earlier Perl's, but at the expense of stomping over their existing UNIVERSAL::VERSION. The XS code in the CPAN release lives in util.c and universal.c in bleadperl (and this is the piece that has been very stable). John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Blvd Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747
