>>>>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:41:49 -0800 (PST), Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said:
> I'm not Cisco, or the original guy, but here are the reasons I (and as the > Admin/Lead Programmer here my position is basically my company's position > on this) won't use Perl 5.8.0 for production servers: > 1) x.0 release. I haven't seen a x.0 release of _any_ software I was > willing to put the family jewels on without quite a bit of testing > first. Before 5.8.0 came out, it wasn't clear if there would ever be a 5.6.2. Since 5.8.0 is out it is pretty clear, 5.6.2 won't happen. This seems to be in accordance with the fact that 5.8.0 comes with 5 times more tests than 5.6.1. IF there is one test missing, YOU probably know which. > 2) The very first machine I installed it on immediately had script > breakage _specifically_ because the rather broken (IMHO) behavior > re making the use of either 'use bytes' or 'binmode' mandatory > if you want to get the same filehandle behavior semantics on *nix > boxes that Perl (and virtually all other *nix programs) have had > historically. > "thenkyouverramuch". :-( Benjamin, please send us your bugreport. WITH the details. Tänkuvérmaç > I should either have been less specific or more correct ... <|=> -- andreas