[MacPerl-Porters] Extensions Binary Compatibility

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

Just built Perl 5.6 a while back on Linux, and it occurred to me that we 
won't have any binary compatibility between existing extensions (on CPAN and 
MMP) that are built with MacPerl 5.004, and the new MacPerl based on 5.6. Or 
any that we do have will be fortuitous, to put it mildly.

Is this the case, in fact? It seems a reasonable proposition if enough of 
the C guts of Perl has changed, which it has.

If this _is_ the case, how shall we address it? Publicize an easy build 
procedure based on MPW compilers for extensions not to be included in the 
new MacPerl distro? And will all new builds for MMP/CPAN be for 5.6 by fiat? 
How would we identify existing builds as being for 5.004, or do we just 
remove them and abandon extensions support for the older version? Questions, 
questions... :-)

Arved Sandstrom



==== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-porters-request@macperl.org