"Sherm Pendley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Robert wrote: > >> Tiger is coming with a newer version of Perl (5.8.6 I believe). When I >> do an >> upgrade does the installer wipe out everything I have already setup via >> CPAN? Or can I just do arecompile...and keep running? > > Your Perl modules won't be deleted unless you use the "clean install" > option, which deletes *everything*. > > /Library/Perl/5.8.1 & /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-yadda is included in > @INC by default. So far as Perl itself is concerned, 5.8.6 (which is what > Tiger ships with) is binary-compatible with modules built for 5.8.1. > > Note that there's no guarantee that *every* module will work perfectly, > just that the interface between Perl and its modules hasn't changed. If > you have a Perl module that's a wrapper for libFoo, there's also the > question of whether the binary interface to libFoo has changed or not. If > it has, you'd need to rebuild that module against the newer libFoo. > > sherm-- > > Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net > Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org
Thanks! Robert
