On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Jeremiah Foster <jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com > wrote:
> > 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > I just wanted to thank everyone for helping me with my problem. I know installation issues, cpan problems, etc. are probably really tedious to diagnose, so I really appreciate the help.
