Re: [patch 5.005_63] typo in h2xs

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:51:15AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> >On the second thought, this is a wrong approach.  'our' should be
> >removed altogether, and the older code [I put there ;-] should be
> >restored.  h2xs is used to generate modules, and nobody said that
> >these modules are going to be used with the latest and greatest perls
> >only.
> 
> Note that h2xs puts a 'require 5.005_62;' in the generated code.

This is a bug too.

> >I would think that "two major backlevels" rule is what should be
> >applied: h2xs of 5.6 should generate scripts compatible with 5.004
> >(possibly 5.004_05?).
> 
> We should certainly add an option to h2xs to generate code compatible
> with older versions, but the default should be the progressive one,
> IMHO. 

and MO is stated above.

> It would seem Larry agrees, given that he added the 'our'
> stuff to h2xs.

> (BTW, these messages are not showing up with perl5-porters@perl.org
> on the Cc list.  I had to add it in by hand.  Did this thread originate
> in a list-to-newsgroup gateway that doesn't feed postings back to
> the list?)

Hmm, interesting.  This is my gateway-to-p5p setup (read from gateway,
send followups as if 'g'roup replying).  I will need to check it.

Thanks,
Ilya

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References to:

Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>

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