tech-pkg: Re: Should perl58 default to threaded under NetBSD 2.0?

Subject: Re: Should perl58 default to threaded under NetBSD 2.0?
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Sverre Froyen <sverre@viewmark.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/22/2004 09:18:55

Hi,
The package perl58-thread defines
PERL5_USE_THREADS= yes
which looks like it has additional effects than that of simply adding 
the pthread library to perl58. The latter is sufficient to fix the GD 
issue. Could this be a way to avoid the negative side of enabling full 
Perl threads?
Sverre
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 02:07, grant beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:40:37AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> > On 2004年6月22日, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > 	Is there any reason why perl58 should not default to being
> > > 	threaded under NetBSD 2.0?
> > 
> > Not really - 2.0 has threads, right?
> 
> the target audience for perl-threads is very, very small, and
> historically perl without threads has been much more stable than perl
> with thread support.
> 
> I'd be against changing the default because it is likely to result in
> a less stable perl and is only useful for a small number of packages.
> 
> grant.
> 
>