Re: Slashdot | Help Test mod_perl 2 Release Candidates

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From: Perrin Harkins
Subject: Re: Slashdot | Help Test mod_perl 2 Release Candidates
Date: 01:37 on 29 Dec 2004
Stas Bekman said:
> In fact Perrin gave a perfect counter-example, while looking for an
> example. The fact is C libraries *do not* embed version numbers in their
> API.

Sure they do, when they change the API significantly: SQLite2, Gtk2,
libxml2.  Separate API, manpages, headers, etc.

> Perl has been evolving for more than 10 years, and one day
> it'll have a built-in solution for this filesystem collision problem.

AFAIK, no language has a solution for this, except possibly crazy Java
hacks with custom classloaders.

> this should be accomplished by a standard mechanism of:
>
> META.yml:
> generation: 2.2

I don't really see how asking for "Apache::Foo, generation 2.2" is any
easier than asking for "Apache2_2::Foo."  It seems like a purely aesthetic
distinction.

- Perrin


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Re: Slashdot | Help Test mod_perl 2 Release Candidates
merlyn (Randal L. Schwartz) 20:34 on 26 Dec 2004

Re: Slashdot | Help Test mod_perl 2 Release Candidates
merlyn (Randal L. Schwartz) 15:09 on 27 Dec 2004

Re: Slashdot | Help Test mod_perl 2 Release Candidates
Perrin Harkins 01:37 on 29 Dec 2004

About putting the blame on other shoulders
Andreas J Koenig 14:28 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
Stas Bekman 15:01 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
Stas Bekman 15:54 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
Andreas J Koenig 16:11 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
Issac Goldstand 16:11 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
Stas Bekman 16:27 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
merlyn (Randal L. Schwartz) 16:43 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
Issac Goldstand 16:58 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
merlyn (Randal L. Schwartz) 17:09 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
Issac Goldstand 17:30 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: About putting the blame on other shoulders
David Nicol 07:01 on 30 Dec 2004

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