On 2006-01-28 10:51:54 +1100, 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 :-(.
Just for the record:
Redhat EL 2.1 perl 5.6.1 supported until May 2009
Redhat EL 3 perl 5.8.0 supported until Oct 2010
I guess the situation for SLES is similar.
So, if Tim wants to support those sysadmins who run distributions as
long as they are supported, he will have to support 5.6.1 for at least 3
more years.
(but then I guess those sysadmins will also use the DBI bundled with
their distribution, so that will not really be an issue, unless specific
DBDs require a newer DBI)
On a related note, I recently ran into some strange issues with
perl/DBI/DBD::Oracle on a RHEL3 box, which I "solved" by installing a
current version of perl into /usr/local. I didn't investigate the matter
in more detail, so I don't know where the problem really was, but it is
possible that DBD::Oracle on RHEL 3 (i.e., perl 5.8.0, DBI 1.32) is
already broken.
> 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...
I am the sysadmin :-)
I try to stick to vendor-supplied packages as long as possible. But as
the host ages, I find that I have to compile more and more packages
myself. So most of my hosts now have a /usr/local/bin/perl and some
subset of CPAN under /usr/local/lib/perl5.
hp
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