# from Austin Schutz # on Tuesday 30 September 2008 16:54: >I really appreciate the "real world" attitude. I regularly have to >deal with older perls supporting production installed software. I >don't want to (or can't) upgrade it.
Is your "it" a) "perl" or b) "CPAN.pm"? If one is not allowed to upgrade one's perl modules, I think that one cannot be helped with the upgrading of one's perl modules. >I want the modules I use to "work", especially the variety of "work" >that involves not barfing when I try to install it. It is unfortunate that any new module on the CPAN is assumed to be the latest and greatest and yet the 3-or-4-year-old installer is assumed to be ok because that's what the OS shipped with or whatever? cpan CPAN You can do that without needing to upgrade your perl. Then you have configure_requires support and henceforth any brand-new thing which happens to be required during installation of the brand-new thing you want will be conveniently installed for you. Of course it would be easier for you if we did that for you, but that has some complications so how's about you do it and tell your friends to do likewise? Thanks, Eric -- "Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value." --Murphy's Constant --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------