Nicholas, Cisco are very much "if its not broken don't fix it" - they are generally slow to use new technologies. We are still using standard htaccess file with lists of user names for authentification, which causes a huge problem for large htaccess file because of the 8K limit and I've been struggling for over a year now to get them to move to mod_perl. I will pose your question to the euro sysadmin guy, but when I spoke to him he basically said that they are in the middle of upgrading all the servers and moving everything to the US - and the researhc/preparation and application testing necessary to move to 5.8 wouldn't fit in with the available resources.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 2002 20:02 To: Mark Proctor Cc: 'Andreas J. Koenig'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CGI and UTF On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:38:20PM -0000, Mark Proctor wrote: [upgrading from 5.6.1 to 5.8] > I have checked with the sysadmins at cisco and they said "no way" :( I'm not asking this as an attempt to provide arguments to give them back - if they are sure of their position, then it is necessary to work within it. But did they say *why* they are so insistent that 5.8.0 is not feasible? [such as house policy on not using .0 versions? time taken to assess and approve releases meaning that approving 5.8.0 is a lot of effort? Something specific they don't like about 5.8.0?] Basically is there something that the perl development community needs to do (or change) that would avoid this in future? Nicholas Clark -- Befunge better than perl? http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/
