Alan Burlison wrote: > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > >> My reading of Perl was that we did the multiple installations to >> allow rolling upgrade (which the mail trail refers to as turning >> "flag days into flag periods"). > > Correct. A customer should always be able to upgrade to Solaris+1 > without forcing them to switch perl version. They then have until > Solaris+2 to migrate, at which point the oldest of the 2 versions of > perl that we ship will have been removed. Of course, the flaw here is many of our customer do upgrade, but skip releases (old data: circa 5.5-5.8), so this doesn't work for them.
That said, I'm comfortable with the approach. We gave them a viable path. - jek3
