(snip)
| Actually you're better off having a newer OS as they are more likely
| to be able to run older apps than an older OS is to be able to run
| newer apps.
I'm sure you are correct, in theory. In practice what happened
to me when I upgraded from RH 4.3 to 6.2, so many things were
different, so many things broke, that it took me about 2 months
of burning midnight oil. Thus, I am gun shy.
| And to think they make jokes about "DLL Hell" on Win32 systems: The
| forced-upgrade problems recently on Linux are just about as bad ;-)
Yeah. 20 years ago I used to think of Unix as an OS that kind
of ran itself, you didn't really need the sort of staff that
you did for a mainframe shop, but these days .... oh, well,
job security for sys admins.
|
| Unfortunately no, and given the number of security holes in 6.X and
| the corresponding number of patches required to plug them IMHO you're
| better off just upgrading. The only other option is to use 2.4.3 for
| graphical development and continue to use an older release for CGI.
| Not that much has changed in the language core and so you're unlikely
| to run into compatibility problems with this approach.
Ok, that is about what I expected but thank you for confirming.
I use Windows for GUI development and .. yes .. some things
are a lot easier. Even though we are an ABM shop (anything
but microsoft) and even though the darn windoz machines crash
a lot, I have to tip my hat to mr. gates for some other things.
So, anyway, I'll stick to 2.4 for my CGI scripts until the day
I bite the bullet on a Linux upgrade. Thanks again.
|
| PS: Please, bug reports and requests like this should go to
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the list...
|
Understood. I thought the list members might like to hear
about this. Are there mail archives for the above?
Regards,
Sadhu
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