On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Ben Mathews wrote: > You say eventually perl 5.8 will be recommended. Why is it not the > recommended version now?
That's really Doug's call, but perhaps one consideration holding back a recommendation of 5.8 on Win32 is that ActiveState won't be making a perl-5.8 binary in the immediate future, and may wait until a 5.8.1 is released (5.8 and 5.6 aren't binary compatable, so this is a major step). And there are some portability things, for example, with unicode - some modules which rely on the way 5.6.1 deals with this need changes with 5.8. > I am developing a windows application currently and started out with > activestate perl 5.6.1, apache 2, and mod_perl 1.99. I ran into a lot > of problems and blamed them on mod_perl because it is still rather new. > Things have progressed smoothly enough using apache versions 1.x and > mod_perl 1.x > > I didn't think of trying perl 5.8, but would be glad to if that is going > to help things. I would like the capabilities that Apache and mod_perl > 2.x give. > > Ben I've found that using 5.8 often is more "stable" than 5.6.1, as far as mod_perl-2 goes - it's definitely worth trying out for development. -- best regards, randy
