my personal opinion, but one i have heard alot about recently is that perl5.8 causes too many issues to migrate to easily on a server basis.. (if you use existing software like amavisd, SpamAssasin etc..
if they (mandrake) offer both old and new apache, why didn't they do the same with perl??? rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Friday, 4 October 2002 6:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] perl 5.6 on MDK9 Franki wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:48:58PM +0800 : > > Is there any reason to think the 8.2 perl rpms wouldn't work?? Yes. 8.2 is compiled with a different version of gcc than 9.0 (in general). You will have have core dumps everywhere (assuming you can get the system to run :) > what would break if I swapped to 5.6.1 in mdk9??? Most things that mandrakesoft provides for system configuration. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk
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