On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:04:28AM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >Sorry for bluntly bugging the list -- I don't currently have a system with
> >Perl 5.6.0 so I can't test his claim. Also, I recall Joey's post on how the
> >Pelr built process could be modified to allow 5.6.* to use the 5.0.{5,6}
> >modules. What become of that?
>
> It's done:
> [...]
> Binary modules compiled under 5.005 can (and do) work under 5.6.
Not all of them, unfortunately. libdigest-md5-perl, for example (bug #77412).
By dependency, this causes Cricket (the grapher CGI anyway) not to work with
5.6, and I have to switch constantly to use debconf (5.6) and test cricket
(5.005).
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- mdz
