dha,
BTW, sorry for being such a snot, just bustin yer chops (not entirely
w/o reason though). =D
-peace
cad
On 8/21/2002 01:14, "David H. Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
>
>> 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
