You make that sound like a good thing... It's easy to have multiple versions of Java on a machine too. That's why I have production boxes with something like 5 or 6 different versions of Java (and different flavours of JVM, natch). It's a living hell. I'm not aware of any software* that comes with it's own particular supported version of Perl, but we don't want to encourage it. It's nifty that you can maintain separate trees of libraries too, but again we don't want to encourge people bundling the supported versions of common modules with their apps so we get $CLASSPATH hell for perl too.That was an interesting thread. Now, it's really easy to have multiple version of Perl running on the same box (let's ignore mod_perl for now ;-) so why hasn't everyone done so? I know I'm very lazy, but what's your excuse?
Boo for implementing compatability via emulation** or glorified ifdefs
Yay for progress. Upgrade and update!
:)
*I know there used to be some Cisco stuff that bundled Perl4 or something at some point. Ick.
** Yeah that means you Cygwin. Die die die.
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