Ela Jarecka [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>Hi folks,
*>Inspired by some discussion on that list I'd like to swap my 5.004 version
*>of Perl to a newer one.
*>The only Perl guru that we have in our company is for some reason very
*>reluctant to help me.. He murmured
*>something about incompatibility and told me to reconsider. So, my first
*>question is: should I expect anything bad?
That depends on your definition of 'Bad'. There is a lot of time and a lot
of changes between 5.004 and 5.6.1. If you enjoy porting and testing every
single bit of code in your code base, then you'll have a blast, especially
if you didn't write any of the code and there isn't a single comment in
sight. Your local guru has probably endured the pain of this wonderful
experience before...take their advice.
*>The second one is: on sunfreeware.com Perl 5.6.1 for SPARC/Solaris 8 comes
*>with a warning:
Solaris 8 comes with 5.6 and is fine if you have the sun compiler on your
system and users don't need to install their own private libraries. Leave
it alone and install in /usr/local and don't replace /usr/bin/perl
as there are a few things like kstat that depend on this package.
*>Is 'slightly earlier version' 5.004?
5.005_03. It's dependable if not cutting edge. I just spent 30 hours this
week attempting an upgrade to 5.6.1 only to find it broken with mod_perl
on Solaris and returned to my trusty old friend 5.005_03.
As they say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and, as far as I can see,
there is no compelling reason to upgrade to the 5.6.* yet unless you are
really into breaking stuff. :)
e.
