On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:18:00PM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > I'm running a perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install(CPAN::Shell->r)', to > > see if it helps me with a PerlMagick/ImageMagick version(?) > > incompatibility, and in the process, it decided to upgrade my > > mod_perl... > > > > to 1.29. > > > > As Stas knows, I've actually already installed 1.99 for Apache2, and > > I'm wondering if CPAN's likely to have broken anything for me. I > > suspect not, I'm just tying up loose ends. > > > > Oh, and will in-place upgrading my perl from 5.6.1 to 5.8.1 break > > things? Will I, for example, have to rebuild mod_perl or anything? > > Assuming that any 3rd party mp2 modules are written to use ModPerl::MM, they > will all install themselves into Apache2/ subdirs. mp1 3rd party modules will > go to the normal places. The only problem with 3rd party mp2 modules is that > CPAN.pm won't be able to find them, unless you adjust @INC and it'll try to > install modules even though there are already installed. Therefore what you > want to do when working with CPAN.pm is:
I believe that was an answer to my first question. Though I'm having trouble parsing it... :-) But I'm not sure about my second one. Perhaps upgrading to 5.8.1 ewill magically make all my problems go away. But I'm not 9 anymore... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
