On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:17:38PM -0400, Sky Lemon wrote: > > Well, I think you've isolated the problems. :-) > > > > Which raises a new question: are these problems that are just inherent > > to installing 5.8.0 on OS X, or will these issues perhaps be resolved at > > some point in the future? > If you went to read the link that was given to you by Morbus, you would have > seen: > > Binary Incompatibility > > Perl 5.8 is not binary compatible with earlier releases of Perl.
Yeah, I got that. I misspoke. It probably would have been more accurate to say "might there be some system of dealing with this easily at some point, or is it doomed to horrid kludginess?" :-) > Unfortunately I can't supply you with instructions on how to install 5.6.1 > again, since my religion does not permit me to support the use of moldy > bits, either by myself or others. Were 5.6.1 moldy already, I might agree with you. Given the recentness of 5.8, I don't consider it to be. A lot of people didn't upgrade to 5.6 until 5.6.1, and not without reason. I consider 5.8.0 to still be in the "if you need the new features, upgrade, otherwise it's optional" phase. Just one person's opinion, of course. > Here's one tip though that may solve a world of problems! Try reading > the documentation, and if you can't find your solution, then post on > mailing lists. Also, even more important, if someone on a mailing list > points you to documentation, they are secretly implying the message > "please read the documentation I just pointed you to". Actually, I knew that. :-) best, dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Naturally, like you, I was incensed, and immediately used my U.S. Second Amendment rights to buy a duffel bag full of machine guns for a shooting spree at the office. - Jon Orwant
