perl5.20

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 14:57:46 PDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> In my opinion it doesn't really make sense to use the last number to
> install the modules or at least it's not "compatible" with the way
>

The problem with this is that XS-based modules can in fact be incompatible
between minor versions. Only pure-Perl modules are safe to install the way
you want.

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