On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 12:06 AM, Richard Jolly wrote:
> Why is it such a bad idea to replace Apple's 5.6? I could reinstall > 10.2 just to revert that, I guess. Would it be worth it? in short perl 5.6.1 is not the same code base as 5.8- so any modules whch were ompiled to run with 5.6.1 won't work with 5.8.0. This is a problem when you overwrite the default install of perl because many OSX system tasks use perl scripts, which suddenly can't use perl. This equates to OSX fubar :-)
