time for perl 5.10.x in devel?

[Chris Weyl]

On Nov 24, 2007 10:17 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/11/2007, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 09:34 -0800, Chris Weyl wrote:
> > > Along these lines...  Do we have a plan for including 5.10 in
> > > F-9/devel?  With the RC out, it sounds like 5.10 will GA
> > > not-too-horribly-soon from now, and we're at a point in devel where
> > > it's probably the Right Time to think about bumping from 5.8 to 5.10.
> >
> > Any idea how intrusive this will be? Will it require a mass-rebuild of
> > perl packages?
>
> Yes. All modules that have XS parts will need to be rebuilt, since
> 5.10 isn't binary compatible with 5.8.

We also use the magic perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_x.x.x) tag even in noarch
packages, which I imagine will need to change.

So, from a couple quick queries off yum list on my laptop (which will
be slightly skewed -- I have ~10ish perl rpms installed not yet in
Fedora):

642 noarch
172 x86_64
-------------
814 total

I suspect we can ease the pain by coordinating a mass rebuild here,
and just kicking off the rebuilds centrally.  (e.g. an annointed
Rebuilder In Chief)

                            -Chris
-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia