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List:       intermezzo-devel
Subject:    Re: POE Version
From:       andreas.koenig () anima ! de (Andreas J !  Koenig)
Date:       2000-03-16 5:08:45
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>>>>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:12:08 -0700 (MST), "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> said:

 > On 15 Mar 2000, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>> While this is a happy solution for now, it isn't a permanent one.
>> Think of people who use POE for other tasks than Intermezzo too, they
>> may need a more recent version.

 > I prefer to keep two versions then. For intermezzo, I always want to use
 > the POE that intermezzo uses, and for my own stuff I'll use the latest. I
 > can tolerate having two versions -- that's what paths are for. I don't
 > want to flood intermezzo people with bugs because I'm using a different
 > POE version than they do. Yes, they will try to keep up, but I have a
 > hunch there will sometimes be version skew -- it's a fact of life with
 > something this complex. It's the same reason I need multiple versions of
 > GCC -- things we use are version sensitive at times. 

Fine with me, but note that then it's a bug in lento that it does a

  use lib qw(. ../POE);

. The right thing would be to install the intermezzo-specific POE
version to /lib/intermezzo and do a

  use lib qw(/lib/intermezzo);


-- 
andreas

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