Perl/TCL threads

[John Richard Moser]

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Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:18:22PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 
>>Colin Watson wrote:
>>
>>>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).
>>
>>changed being recompiled, or rewritten?
> 
> 
> Probably just recompiled, but some package names would have to change,
> dependencies would have to be checked thoroughly, and there might have
> to be a Perl policy change to get everything consistent. (At least,
> that's what has had to happen for similar things in the past.)
> 


Well it's not really that important.  *shrug*

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