At 10:51 AM +1100 1/28/06, Ron Savage wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:20:31 -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Moreover, I suggest you go a bit further and say that
5.8.1/5.008001 is the minimum version, rather than 5.8.0; no one
should actually be using 5.8.0 given all the bugs it has, and the
5.8.1 delta fixed more than any subsequent release, I think.
This is a bit trickier than it seems at first. Where I work - Monash Uni in
Melbourne - the nature of the contracts with Red Hat suggest,
AFAICT, that 5.8.0
will be with us indefinitely :-(. The standard but simplistic reply, install
your own version of Perl, has of course long term maintenance problems of its
own, even if it were possible. So I'll be sticking with the DBI
compiled by the
sys admin...
Yes, and people could say that about other specific versions too.
I also don't see why the Red Hat supplied distro can't be more up to
date; in fact, I would expect any ongoing contract with them to
include furnishment of up to date distros.
Even if you can't move, its not like 5.8 is becoming a hard
dependency, rather just a soft dependency, as I recall.
-- Darren Duncan
