After you install perl 5.6 like this. What I did was incase I needed to revert back, was to create a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/local/perl-5.6.0. That way, I didn't have to modify any of my existing scripts.
Jim Lynch wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 01:37:15 PDT > > To: [email protected], Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: where is perl 5.6? > > > > Perl 5.6 was released on March 23rd. That's a full 7 months ago. > > Build yourself one in a non-PATHable place... I put mine in > /usr/local/perl-5.6.0 so no standard paths would go there... > > But mine is built with multiple interpreter support and interpreter > threads support, the latter of which breaks binary compatibility and > the former of which does that plus is considered unstable, partly due > to the perl folks' not having decided what kind of threads to support. > > I am doing a perl interpreter for aolserver, and decided early on to > use perl-5.6. Brendan O'Dea has or will have perl-5.6 pkgs available > which have been built to be binary-compatible with old 5.005.03 modules. > > Unfortunately, these packages will not work for my project, so I will > be staying on my own with it. Very unfortunate... Branden is very > knowledgable about perl, and I would have preferred he would maintain > pkgs that would work for me. I appreciate that he occasionally gives me > a quick hand with questions I have concerning perl internals. It > turns out he is quite an expert. > > > In the meantime, I as a perl programmer, who is also a Debian developer, > > and who prefers to use what is in Debian, > > I understand your sentiment... but that can't stop you from doing what you > want^W^W^Wnecessary research. > > > found myself falling behind. > > I wasn't able to investigate the cool new stuff in perl 5.6. > > With respect, yes you were :) With your experience, building is easy > with eyes closed :) Debian has a finely tuned set of dev tools. The C > compiler always works due to carefully-authored dependency relations > to libs and binutils that work with it. You can't say this about all > dists for the simple reason some are not careful about libs. > > Perl builds without incident on debian. The perl that comes with debian > is used by maintainer scripts, so it's not so easy to just replace with- > out totally breaking the dist for (my guess) no shorter than two weeks. > > Rather than tie yourself to that process, free yourself and build one ;) > > > Some of it > > is clearly stuff I can use in my programs to significantly improve them, > > but if I do, I will not be able to put those improvements into my Debian > > packages, since Debian still doesn't support perl 5.6. > > > > There was plenty of excuse for nothing being done about packaging perl 5.6 > > for Debian while potato was in the freeze, but that has been no excuse for > > 1 and a half months now, and in that time I've not seen perl's maintainer > > doing anything to get perl 5.6 into Debian. > > Is he MIA? I think I heard something about him not answering his emails; > this note is addressed to him, so maybe with this note, we will see. > > > But just 2 days after > > Debian's release, Brendan O'Dea stunned me by producing perl 5.6 debs that > > dropped into a Debian system, and acted as the default perl without > > breaking anything. Even better, they reverted the package name back to > > "perl" (no more perl-5.005 unsightliness), and they have a very > > intelligent way of using dependancies to deal with future changes in the > > perl XS module API without requiring such ugly package names in the > > future. > > Like I say in this note, Brendan is quite an expert :) > > > There's just one problem: They're still not in Debian, and I still > > cannot make my packages use all the nifty new features of perl 5.6. > > And I really don't understand why. I've seen almost no discussion of > > them on this list, and I've seen no reaction from the perl maintainer at > > all. Darren, are you still there? Doesn't anyone care about getting perl > > 5.6 into Debian? > > Definitely... but because I know in advance that this perl-5.6 will not > be built with multiple interpreter support (at least), the interest on > my part is less than complete. I -have- to build my own, so I will do so. > > Not a big deal, except I'd have to show people how to do it... > > -Jim > > --- > Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key > as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ > as Debian developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~jwl/ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thank You, Trent [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the future didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.
