well, it turns out I figured out my local admin type scripts, but irssi scripts like scriptassist and such, wont go. looks like it might be a site_perl path issue, but then I resolved that, and still no go. I am test-driving gentoo 1.4_rc2. forum diving I go! :)
Cheers Chris -----Original Message----- From: Dave Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 13:11 To: Clug-Talk Subject: Re: (clug-talk) perl 5.8.x compat with 5.6.x Chris Lobkowicz wrote: > Why oh why did Larry do this? irssi scripts are not compatible to perl 5.8. > And my home brew 5.6 scripts wont run under 5.8.... > > > grrr. > > And I thought the backwards-compatibility gotchas were a demon of the > windows world. just wait til perl 6 ;-) what kind of problems are you running into? I haven't moved to 5.8, and I haven't looked much at the changes between 5.6 and 5.8. I thought much of it was threads. Dave
