I was on the assumption that upcoming Perl 5.10 is going to replace 5.8 . thanks for the clarification.
- sriram Mark Phalan wrote: > > 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
