On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 10:17 -0700, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: > In my "Weird Things That Happen" experience, one should heed Keith's > cautions and advice when attempting to upgrade Python. Do just as he says, > except replace Perl with Python. > > -- Pat
A few problems with this. 1. SpamCannibal and EasyTCP require perl, not python. 2. The Slackware 10.1 based server is running perl 5.12.1 just fine. 3. Obviously, CentOS's perl 5.8.8 doesn't match. 4. I've already installed perl 5.12.1 as the default on CentOS. 5. I did an rpm -e --nodeps for all of the CentOS perl packages and then I deleted /usr/lib/perl5 prior to source installation. Thing is, there has to be a way to do this and if there isn't, there should be an explanation why. When perl 6 is finished, will people still prefer python? I don't understand why people want to leave perl for python. If Redhat has done something strange to perl, what did Redhat do? Can I duplicate this with the newer source code to be compatible with CentOS 5.x perl and perl 5.12.1 on the slackware based server? The slackware server is nfs root based, so please don't suggest that I upgrade. I'm tempted to install perl 5.8.8 via yum on CentOS, but this won't match what I have on the Slackware server and it is older. Is there a way to install the standard perl to a non standard area to study it somehow so I can figure out what RedHat did to it? EasyTCP isn't working on the CentOS server with perl 5.12.1, I get a lot of unintialized value errors and I don't know why. Isn't perl capable of emulating older versions of itself? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
