On 29 May 2009, at 19:54, Sriram Natarajan wrote: > In that case, just out of curiousity - isn't it better if the same > perl team delivers all such critical Perl modules as well. I > honestly don't know if the Perl team has the right bandwidth to do > so but if various such critical modules are integrated by different > teams then perl upgrade will become more and more harder. Just my > 2c thoughts.. >
If I understand correctly Perl 5.8 and Perl 5.10 can co-exist. Delivering a Perl module for Perl 5.8 should in no way affect upgrading Perl to 5.10. The PSARC case for 5.10 indicates that Perl 5.8 will be end-of-life'ed at a later date. If/When Perl is upgraded to 5.10 I'll make sure that Net::SSLeay will work with it. I'm not sure the Perl team (even if there is such a thing) would like to be burdened with being responsible for the whole universe of Perl modules. Net:SSLeay really falls into the Solaris Security group's responsibility (of which I'm part of). -M
