On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 02:03 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
[..]
> You *could* download Perl 5.6, and transplant them... and fix the minor
> problem that OO wasn't properly implemented until 5.005_03. Honestly,
> upgrade to 5.6 something, or even 5.8 (is it out yet?) - even if you
> have to do paperwork, 5.004 is a largely unsupported version now and
> most modules require 5.005 or higher.
p1: Perry really should take the stand that the need to upgrade
to at least 5.6.1 is 'required' and hence begin the campaign there
so as to 'simplify' the process - based upon the 'difficulty' of
tracking down any form of support at the CPAN or elsewhere for
5.004 { things get hard for a reason } - and couch that campaign
in terms of the 'saved person hours' and all of that falteral....
I understand the problem with 'documenting' the process and all,
trust me - but you can use the fact that 5.4 is dead wood and should
have been replaced by y2k with a 5.5.3 version as the principle
lever for mandating the upgrade.
if you do the 'Configure' appropriately - you will still be able to
get the old Modules - which most likely NEED to be upgraded anyway -
into the @INC - eg:
mex: 53:] perl -e 'print "$_\n" foreach (@INC);'
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i86pc-solaris
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i86pc-solaris
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i86pc-solaris
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
..
mex: 54:] env | grep PERL
mex: 55:]
see - no perllib trick there...
p2: vladimir: 54:] ls perl[45]*
perl4.035 perl5.003 perl5.00404 perl5.6.1
vladimir: 55:]
you mean I really have to give up on perl4.035 ??? 8-)
p3: perl wasn't really stable till 5.00503 - but that
version got 'removed' because I was installing it with
a solaris package and the pkgrm removed everything it installed....
ciao
drieux
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