[enhancement] proposal - make all ports independent of which version of Perl is installed or the major one

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On May 15, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:05:45PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> I do not recall why but at some point I needed "perl5.12 +threads
>> +shared" and after upgrading  perl5.12 with these variants NONE of my
>> perl modules were found.  It was required that I reinstall all perl
>> modules.
>> 
>> Would perl modules built with perl -threads -shared work after
>> switching to perl +threads +shared?
> 
> No, they probably would not, as rev-upgrade goes ahead and starts
> rebuilding all your perl modules as soon as you do that. However,
> rev-upgrade happily automates this process, so it's not that bad.

Ah yes, another thing nice brought to us by rev-upgrade :)

Thanks Clemens!
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