On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 10:47AM, Pong-TC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I copy >A2P.EXE,LIB.DIR;1,PERL.EXE;1,PERLSHR.EXE;1, and UTILS.DIR;1 from the >unzipped directory (perl 5.8.4) to the actual directory of perl 5.6.1 so >as to upgrade perl in the system? Don't do that; it can only lead to confusion. It would confuse people, because you'd have a 5.8.4 kit in a directory indicating it wss 5.6.1, and your PCSI database would not match what you actually have out there. I doubt PRODUCT REMOVE would work correctly after doing this either. You can do whatever you want with the 5.6.1 kit -- it has no relationship whatever with the 5.8.4 kit. You can switch back and forth between them if you want merely by redefining PERL_ROOT. If you have unzipped the new binary kit and pointed PERL_ROOT at it, you have already "upgraded Perl in the system." Whether you choose to use the old version or the new version or some combination of both, and which version you want to be the default, is entirely up to you.
