I have to agree with Tony. If a company is going to be using "enterprise" software, they are going to have to control their hardware and be able to install whatever software is necessary for their enterprise solution to work. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Bowden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:24 PM > To: Stas Bekman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Support for Perl 5.005 or not? (was: abstract > methods (was > Re: transient object data)) > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:53:31AM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > > A. Installing Perl is not easy unless you know-how or have a binary > > RPM/DEB/etc > > B. Consider ISPs which won't let you install/support a newer version > > Whilst I agree with these in the context of considering which versions > of perl to support for a small web application that you wan't to be as > 'plug-n-play' as possible, I'm not so convinced in the > enterprise world. > > I had thought the "target market" for much of this would be > organisations > who would probably have (pretty much) complete control over their own > environments (bypassing 'B') and someone with enough clue to get a > working version of perl... (although many places may not want > to move to > something too close to the bleeding edge, but if 5.6.1 is pretty > standard now then I'd definitely say it should be fine). > > Or have I misunderstood? > > Tony > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ > And if you need my > attention Be bizarre > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ >
