On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 12:14 AM, David H. Adler wrote:
> 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. > "Just (two) persons' opinion..." I agree with you completely David. CPAN is marvelous, but it would be taken in to the realm of unbelievably good if it could keep a log of all that is installed, and then would uninstall everything for you. For that matter, it would be great if the general unix system could have a selective uninstall feature. I know many like being on the cutting edge, and I do too as long as that is what I am trying to learn. However, I have found upgrading even the stock 5.6.0 perl and messing around with Apache on my iBook to be ultimately time-consuming. I wanted to get down to learning perl and making some db-web applications, but have spent most of my time swatting various cryptic errors. Right now I don't know of any way to get back to what my iBook came with. I am hoping a Jaguar clean install will set things right for me. From then on, I am not touching Apple's config that comes with the OS. I am going to work with the system, not against, or sideways, or tangentially to it. pk/
