On Nov 2, 2009, at 20:38, tom smith wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com> wrote:
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:25:18 -0700, Tom Smith wrote:
I believe that your HTML::Parser needs upgrading. But you're
getting the
system one, which is often dangerous to touch. I think you should
make an
enitrely new Perl from scratch, installed to a different location,
then
you never have to worry about these conflicts.
Ok, sounds good. I'll see if I can figure out how to install perl.
What
version would you recommend? I read that perl 5.10 back ports some
perl 6
stuff, and I tend to shy away from hybrid releases.
Perl 5.10 is a great release with lots of great features and bug
fixes. I would not call it a 'hybrid' release but you are right that
there are elements from perl 6 in perl 5.10. You don't need to use
many of them if you don't want to and you will often have to call them
explicitly; i.e. with a 'use' declaration like this;
use feature ':5.10';
Debian has perl 5.10.1 in testing so if you want the latest stable
perl release you may consider using perl 5.10.1 and not 5.10. I think
there is a developer release out too, 5.11. (Perl tends to have
developer releases end in odd numbers and stable releases as even
numbers.)
Jeremiah
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