[Catalyst] How best not to use the system perl

2011-09-30 Thread Dermot
Hi, I have got a new server that I want to put into production. To comply with the manufacturer, I have installed RedHat 6.1 on it. Up till now we have used Debian based machines and have been using the system perl. That worked ok because all the necessay libperl*.deb could be installed via the

Re: [Catalyst] How best not to use the system perl

2011-09-30 Thread Stuart Watt
Perl 5.10 isn't really supported any more, so it is highly likely that at some stage the system Perl will get upgraded behind the scenes, breaking binary compatibility with modules even if they are in local::lib. The only safe solution is to use your own Perl (I'd not put it directly under

Re: [Catalyst] How best not to use the system perl

2011-09-30 Thread Joe Landman
On 09/30/2011 10:52 AM, Stuart Watt wrote: Perl 5.10 isn't really supported any more, so it is highly likely that at some stage the system Perl will get upgraded behind the scenes, breaking binary compatibility with modules even if they are in local::lib. The only safe solution is to use your

Re: [Catalyst] How best not to use the system perl

2011-09-30 Thread Jorge Gonzalez
Hi Dermot, in my development machine I have a Perl environment installed in my home dir with perlbrew. That way I can install anything I need without disturbing (or using) the system perl. Later, when doing a deployment to the production environment, I deploy my app and my full perlbrew

Re: [Catalyst] How best not to use the system perl

2011-09-30 Thread Stephen Clouse
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Joe Landman land...@scalableinformatics.com wrote: For years, we've been putting our Perl under the /opt/scalable/ tree. We've run into so many problems with system supplied Perl, that in general, we simply ignore it. We also have, in the past

RE: [Catalyst] How best not to use the system perl

2011-09-30 Thread John Karr
=-fPIC -Doptimize=-O2 \ -Duseshrplib -Dcf_by=Your_name_here \ -Dcf_email=Your_email@here -Original Message- From: Dermot [mailto:paik...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:39 AM To: The elegant MVC web framework Subject: [Catalyst] How best not to use the system perl Hi