It seems like every time a major distro jumps to a new version of Perl, there is copious gnashing of teeth and spawning of new threads here. At the risk of putting my ignorance on parade, I'll ask: why not distribute a runtime of perl with the linux LMS? It's already done with the Windows version. Every version of squeezeplay includes a runtime of lua, doesn't it? I notice that ActiveState has perl packages for Linux. And the current nightly LMS deb install package, now that it includes all architectures, is more than twice the size of the Windows install package anyway. When was the last time that the LMS code used a new Perl feature not found in the previous release?
For linux users who want to run LMS with the latest release of Perl, you could always build the modules yourself, resolve the dependencies & run from the LMS git code. That's what I do. For those of you who have a better understanding of the issues here, can you tell me why would this be a bad idea? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102022 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
