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-compat-5.8.0-0.fdr.2.i386.rpm > > 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. -- [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2004-February/thread.html#00678
