On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Peter J. Hartmann wrote:
Hmm. Maybe I am a bit dense, but I was under the impression that one of the CamelBones Packages includes perl 5.8.4 due to 5.8.4 being *recommended* for CamelBones under Panther. Am I wrong?
There *is* the "Fat Camel" bundle for Panther, which includes Perl 5.8.4, a CamelBones.framework that's built to use that Perl, and a bunch of pre-compiled modules. If you want a newer Perl than the one that ships with Panther, and/or you don't want to bother building some fairly troublesome modules by hand, that bundle is well worth looking at.
On the other paw, CamelBones builds and works quite well with every Perl I've tested, both 5.6.* and 5.8.*. Beyond the minimum of 5.6.*, no particular version is required. More to the point, it works fine with the standard 5.8.1 that ships with Panther.
(Apart from that, a good specific reason would be improved UNICODE support.)
That's certainly a good reason to upgrade from 5.6.* to 5.8.* - but Panther already ships with 5.8.1, so that's not really an issue in this case. The changes from 5.8.1 to later 5.8.* versions are very minor - basically just bug fixes, no major new features. If 5.8.1 has a bug that's biting you, and it's been fixed in a later version, I'd upgrade, but otherwise I probably wouldn't bother.
sherm--
