Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Russ Allbery]

John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Piers Cawley wrote:

>> Unless you can get at every single one of those and add a '-M5' switch,
>> then they aren't going to work. Which could be very bad indeed.

> The analogous situation with p4->p5 wasn't so bad.  People just kept
> their p4 binaries around for running those old scripts.  No biggie.

There's quite a lot more Perl 5 code out there than there was Perl 4 code.
And it's rather annoying to still be maintaining a perl4 installation at
this point for the stragglers, although I suppose that can't be helped.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>