| Jerry Hedden 2006-10-05, 7:09 pm |
| Jerry D. Hedden submitted:
> Adds "" overload for threads objects.
> * Do not propagate this patch into maint.
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> in bleadperl we have the "feature" pragma to turn on 
> features.
I can't see making this a feature - seems like overkill to
me.
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Well, that then creates another problem. What $VERSION
> should threads in maint report?
> Doing this makes a code fork. I've been adopting the
> policy of not merging code to released maint unless it
> *is* an official release of the module on CPAN (for all
> dual life modules).
> Whereas there is no code fork if the code is identical,
> but the *default* behaviour in 5.8.x is not to do this,
> with the module having an import time option to turn it
> on. It's trivial for code that knows that it wants this
> feature from threads to be written to request that threads
> enable it.
[sigh] I guess this seems to be the concensus approach.
I'll add it that way (i.e., an import flag) in the next
release.
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