On 02/18/2010 07:41 PM, Andreas Bierfert wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 03:59 -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: >> Hello, >> I was wondering if it's worth trying update to development release >> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.028_502.tar.gz >> or if you prefer pick interesting patches? The thing is we have three >> years old version. >> Best regards, > > Hi there, > > you are correct the version in fedora is quite old. However, perl-Tk was > a slow moving target as long as I know about it. If we were to upgrade > to the beta it would only be for F-14 rawhide and only in case a release > date would be anticipated withing the F14 time-frame. > > The only exception I can imagine right know is that the development > release fixes/improves upon something major which is broken atm... Agreed, but the real problem with adding "devel-versions packages" to Fedora is them introducing "unstable" (likely temporary) ABI/APIs, and in case of perl-modules, is them also not being unlikely to add perl version-numbering and CPAN issues. Ralf -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
