In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Sherm Pendley writes: > On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 10:13 PM, Trey Harris wrote: > > > In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Sherm Pendley writes: > >> To be more specific: If you're installing 5.8.0 on a "clean" system - > >> i.e. you haven't installed any CPAN modules under 5.6.0 - you're fine. > > > > Not exactly... if you intend on building apps for distribution to anyone > > else, you'd better use 5.6.0, otherwise you're going to be forcing all > > your users to upgrade too, yes? > > That's only true if your app uses some construct that's only available > in 5.8.0,
Really? So, say, you build a CamelBones app under 5.8, and make it a self-contained .app dir so that your users don't know it's Perl. It'll work even on a machine running 5.6, and vice versa? Trey
