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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-08 22:19:45 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-05-08 22:19:45 +0000
commit6ba475fe2018fe65f427144cb63c2f6b3daa344a (patch)
tree1b7ec55bf5e6254b2189ab1d2e820e663f28c0f0 /pod
parentae45a499be4650b1ac9f50f7721abca27e07dd5f (diff)
downloadperl-6ba475fe2018fe65f427144cb63c2f6b3daa344a.tar.gz
Deprecate 5.005threads.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16498
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 52ffc244e1..97a7a4ae3f 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -243,6 +243,12 @@ to be removed in a future release.
=item *
+The 5.005 threads model (module C<Thread>) is deprecated and expected
+to be removed in Perl 5.10. Multithreaded code should be migrated to
+the new ithreads model (see L<threads> and L<threads::shared>).
+
+=item *
+
The long deprecated uppercase aliases for the string comparison
operators (EQ, NE, LT, LE, GE, GT) have now been removed.
@@ -2807,8 +2813,9 @@ The suggested cure is to upgrade your Solaris.
=head2 Failure of Thread (5.005-style) tests
-B<Note that support for 5.005-style threading remains experimental
-and practically unsupported.>
+B<Note that support for 5.005-style threading is deprecated,
+experimental and practically unsupported. In 5.10 it is expected
+to be removed.>
The following tests are known to fail due to fundamental problems in
the 5.005 threading implementation. These are not new failures--Perl