Perl/TCL threads

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:35:52PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> On Gentoo, I ran for several months with USE="threads ithreads" for
> Perl, TCL, and TK.  This enables threaded interpreters and such, but
> "may break some apps."
> 
> In my experience, once Perl/TCL/TK is compiled threaded, the ABI is
> different, but the API is the same.  Thus, xchat's perl/tcl plug-ins,
> and anything else linked against the perl, TCL, TK, etc libraries, must
> be recompiled against the new libraries.  Scripts are fine.
> 
> Does ubuntu use threads in the interpreter languages?  If not, and
> nothing in main breaks from it, I'd like to see this.  It's not
> immensely important, though.

Just for Perl, that's a couple of hundred packages that would need to be
changed. I think we'd be best off waiting until Debian does this
(perhaps with a new upstream release of Perl).

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]