Serguei Trouchelle wrote:
> Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>
>> 1) Pros and cons of installing 5.10.0.1005 vs 5.8.9.826 (both
>> via .msi)? Specifially, if I install 5.10.x will my existing
>> scripts run automatically, or do I need to change their
>> initial lines? Some of my scripts need to work with the perl
>> dynamically embedded in VIM.
>
> In two sentences:
> Pro: 5.10 has some new features:
http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod
> Con: 5.10 has less pre-compiled PPM modules.
>
> 99% that you don't have to change anything in your scripts, but
> nobody would guarantee it. Just check: installing ActivePerl
> takes only minutes, you can always rollback if something goes
> wrong.
Thanks; I will stay with 8.9.x for now.
>> 2) For either choice, what is the best way to list the
>> modules I have on my old machine and to get the latest
>> versions of them on the new machine?
>
> ppm profile save filename
>
> copy "filename" to new machine, and then
>
> ppm profile restore filename
Installed the latest ppm-profile, but got this error message:
> ppmprofile --verbose save
c:\opt\perl\site\bin\ppmprofile.pl save is not supported for PPM4 yet at
c:\opt\perl\site\bin\ppmprofile.pl line 81.
My directory structure on the old and new PC is the same. I
suppose things will work if I copy over the site directory; but
will ppm on the new PC new about the installed modules?
--Suresh
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