Hello again, On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Richard F. Rebel wrote:
> upgrading/downgrading distro provided base perl installations is > often more of a nightmare than it's worth. It can sometimes cause a little frustration, so I prefer to avoid the versions provided by the distributions in the first place. Typical of the sort of thing you'll run into are having versions of packages in /usr as well as in /usr/local and not always being sure which one will be used in a given set of circumstances. You're reluctant to nuke the old one, in case three weeks later you're up against a tight deadline and you find something you were planning on using is broken. Of course when you're just getting your feet wet it adds quite a bit to the gradient of the learning curve if you install everything from scratch. I don't think there's an easy answer. Every now and again I'll throw a machine out and replace it completely because it's just not worth the hassle of trying to bring things like compilers and C libraries up to date but at least you can take comfort that for Perl, Apache and mod_perl it's really pretty straightforward by comparison when you've done it a few times. 73, Ged. -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
