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Re: perl-5.18.4

From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:36:52 +0100
Subject: Re: perl-5.18.4
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On 1/19/2015 9:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

On Jan 15 18:51, Achim Gratz wrote:

Corinna Vinschen writes:

However, why does a bump from 5.x to 5.y require a rebuild of other
packages?  Is the perl stuff backward incompatible from one minor
version to the other?!?


Anything linked against the Perl DLL must be rebuilt.


Still, why?  Is it real backward incompat, or just due to DLL
versioning?  Does DLL versioning really make sense here?  Usually, if
the new DLL is only providing new stuff but not breaking backward
compat, we're not bumping the DLL version.


Corinna


looking at the Changelog, they are breaking API
http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5180delta.html#Incompatible-Changes
http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5200delta.html#Incompatible-Changes

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