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Reini Urban wrote:
| The p5p statement was that it is legal to ADD functions, and it is
| illegal to REMOVE functions during the 5.10 cycle.
| So it's not comparable to the 5.8 case, where structs were changed.

OK, that makes sense.

| So breakage only occurs if a new XS library (here DateTime::Locale)
| calls an old XS library (here Params::Validate) without this new function.
| This would have happened with 5.10.1 also.

I did notice that a gtk2-perl program did run after the upgrade to -5.
So how can I detect if an XS module needs to rebuilt or not?


Yaakov

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