Octave Orgeron writes:
> Well it would definitely create an incompatibility with the previous
> releases of Solaris. However, I think something like this would work
> well going forward:
> 
> /usr/apache/1.x/(bin,lib,etc.)
> /usr/apache/2.x/(bin,lib,etc.)
> /usr/apache/3.x/(bin,lib,etc.)

I think that might miss the point.  The original plan was to _remove_
the old version after one release, so that we wouldn't need to
establish a museum of instances.

In other words, you'd one day end up with just /usr/apache2, and
nothing else.

> After look around in /usr, I wonder if that same should be done for
> Perl since version 6 will eventually become more prevalent (but who
> knows?).

A transition makes sense to me.  If we *really* need to maintain
multiple versions (as with the JVM), then that's a separate path.  I'd
hope we don't have to do that, as it's a lot of baggage to carry
around.

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