On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:05 PM, stephen rouse wrote:
i take it installing 5.8 is a bad idea?
Installing it over your stock Perl is a bad idea. Installing it somewhere safe - I prefer /opt - is perfectly harmless.
Actually, since I've done this, installing 5.8 over your stock perl does not seem to cause any problems in general.
I did find that various MUD clients would not work because they tried to link to perl and got hit with the binary incompatibility issue. Possibly the same problem would happen if you used CB apps. But other than those MUD programs, I have had no problems with 5.8 as the only installed perl on my system.
So it may b a bad idea, but it seems to work without problems.
Enjoy, Peter.
-- <http://www.interarchy.com/> <http://download.interarchy.com/>
