On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:04:21PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Has anyone tried Activestate's packaged perl 5.6 for Debian? I wouldn't
> normally consider them, but there's no other packaged 5.6 for Debian-
> stable.
I'd just run -testing. That to me would be less invasive and likely
to break the whole system than installing a 3rd-party perl distro,
unless you can keep the two installs completely separate (I anecdotally
expect that to be unlikely given the age of the potato perl). FWIW,
I've been running various flavours of Debian testing and unstable on
production machines with great success since '96.
-stable is just too long in the tooth for doing any modern development
(IMO)...
Good luck,
Paul
