On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 07:12 +0100, Jeff wrote: > Debian provide a tested, stable environment, usually with added security > factor. We rolled our own once to solve the libc6 2.7 memory bugs that > hit Perl, to be bitten by intermittent and obscure interaction bugs > (MySQL/Perl mid-query dropping db connections etc). We persevered for > two months but went back to stable in the end.
Hopefully this is obvious, but if you aren't using your distro's perl package, you can't use any of their CPAN packages either, so you'd need to compile your own DBI and DBD::mysql. (Of course you can build your own .deb for these if you care about keeping that infrastructure.) > The Debian bed-of-roses is usually fab, but does provide some thorny > issues i.e. stability vs security is one they endlessly revisit (whew > look at the recent Thunderbird/Firefox issues!). In the mean time, we > are stuck with PHP4. That's a good example of why I wouldn't depend on my distro for the components that are truly important to my use, i.e. perl and apache. - Perrin
