Re: It's all ASPLODY!

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:15 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:

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Perl was updated from 5.8 to 5.10 for Fedora 9. If you want to call that a regression, have fun in your little fantasy world.

Did that trigger a need to rebuild anything? The only non-backwards-compatible change I've ever seen in perl was when it started to interpolate @ in double-quoted strings between 4.x and 5.x.

Yes, for a variety of reasons the packages needed to be rebuilt. Many had to be altered too, as many things were brought into perl core that were addons previously, and rpm spec files had to be adjusted. Spot can fill you in on the more technical details.