Larry Bohan wrote:
!while we're here, could one of y'all perhaps !elaborate on the choice of "-Dusedevel" ? !Is it mostly to step past/skip warnings inre !"this is a dev kit, beware"? or ....? !-ldb That is precisely why "-Dusedevel" exists and is relatively un(der) documented. It is so that people do not install a test release by accident for production use. sh Configure -Dusedevel when running on Unix/POSIX/any platform that has a sh, and @Configure "-Dusedevel" on VMS are the ways to get around it and do a test build. The logic of it depends on the evenness of the PERL_VERSION. For what it is worth I do not put any of these perl@\d\d\d\d\d.tgz kits into production as a system PERL_ROOT, although I am looking forward to replacing 5.6.1 with 5.8.0 on final release. Peter Prymmer
