On 04-Jun-2002 Al Tobey wrote: > Not sure if anybody has mentioned this, but you can run two (or three or > four) versions of perl on the same machine. For instance, I install > perl in /opt/perl5.005_03 and /opt/perl-5.6.1 is the latest. Soon, I'll > have /opt/perl-5.8.0RC1. Just change the #! in your POE scripts to use > your perl 5.6.1 installation and perl will just do the right thing. > Installing in /opt/perl-5.6.1 will not disturb /usr or /usr/local > installs, but you'll want to be aware of your $PATH variable when > installing modules. I usually default the PATH to the "system stable" > version of perl, which varies between Linux and HP-UX here. So, to use > 5.6.1 on HP-UX, I use "export PATH=/opt/perl-5.6.1:$PATH" and see what > I'm using with "perl -v". > > Not sure if you've already thought of this, but it works for me.
I'm well aware of this. The problem is that the vast majority of the code I maintain uses POE and/or mod_perl and is w/o a comprehensive test suite. So this approche isn't all that useful. -Philip
