On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 07:53 , Jason Frisvold wrote:
> Am I in the dark here? I thought the latest stable was 5.6.1?
> What's with 5.7.x?? I know 5.8.x is brandy new... And 6.x is
> apparently going to be the "new" god to follow...
hence why I have not worried about going to 5.7.X yet - since
the WayWonkaGeeks have not fully evolved to 5.8.1+....
but why, on the other hand, when the WayWonakGeeks moved to
5.7 I thought about 5.6 - and when Apple and linux red hat
pushed out 5.6 as their default version - I just opted
to move on down the road....
What you want to read for are the
X is deprecated in <version> and will be removed by <version+++>
as those are the things that you have to resolve are you
really that committed to doing in the first place.....
The fun here of course is the question of whether having
a canonical 'in perl' "switch" really is 'the right thing' -
just as one will have to work out whether or not being able
to work around the IO::Handle solution to gin up $tmpFileHandles
that you wish to breed is progress or merely
Let's Fart Funny Files in /tmp
and see what the SysAdminStaff does when
they finally notice that they should have
built these boxes with a 4x swap to memory
ratio - and hence should also have learned about swapadd
command so that they would have an alternative swap device
ready to protect against silly coders farting temp files on
the default swap device for the system - so as to protect
them from running into the 'out of swap space' crisis moments
which most of them do not natively write code to protect
themselves from doing to themselves...
All of which is part and parcel of the debate about whether or
not one wishes to take one's risks with the new versions of perl,
or with the new implementations of algorithms one wishes to implement
in Perl Code....
Remember kiddies that the Advanced Programming in Perl book came
out in 1997 - and they have been trying to make perl a production
grade software environment..... And we were all running which rev
of perl back then?????
ciao
drieux
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