[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry for the probably silly question, but just what are the
> differences between 5.6.1 and 5.8.1? I am 100% ig'nant, but I assume
> that most/all 5.6.1 scripts will port fairly hands-off? What are some
> gotchas that us noobs should watch for to make sure our stuff works
> when we try to run it on Panther?
Two things that occur to me right away to watch out for (I'm sure other
people will have other comments):
1) There are a large number of perl modules which ship with 5.8.1 but
did not ship with 5.6.1. For the most part, this is a good thing,
but you'll need to watch the version numbers of the modules if the
version number is important to your code.
2) Any XS modules which were compiled against perl 5.6.1 will break.
This also applies to any executable or library which you may have
which links against the main perl library
/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/libperl.dylib
HTH,
Dave
