On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 05:26:40 +0200 (CEST), Dag Wieers wrote:
One important point, you are (or have been) effectively dropping support for every distro prior to FC1.
No. That's what the perl-forward-compat package has been for:
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/8.0/i386/RPMS.stable/perl-forward-co...
Seems reasonable, only that it is yet again different than how it is handled with python. I know the situation is a bit different, but the implementation is completely different. (naming and how versioning works)
Yes, it's different, but it was subject to public discussion [1], and none of the few people who had comments disagreed strongly.
With the new and automated 'python(abi) = ...' dependency in FC4 devel, the solution on the Python side has become even more different, btw.