Multiple Perl Version on the same server

[Michael Barto]

I have a client whose Production and Development Server version of Perl is significantly out of data particularly with libraries  (even though they are running Perl 5.8.0). This become obvious when I moved my program on my Mac at 5.8.8 with its current libraries to their development server. Even though it all worked, a lot of error messages started appearing in the Apache logs. As a good programmer, I started to fix them only to find they were experiencing these errors all the time with all their other programs.  Investigating it more, I discovered that their libraries were severely out of date. For example their version of manip.pm is dated 2000. I have propose that they install on their Development Linux server a later version of Perl in another location and migrate the application over (e.g. /usr/new/perl). Their concern is there is only one MySQL program, but the Perl libraries to access it would be  different. Second, they think installing a later version of Perl in a different location would overwrite the current library. I am not really clear how Perl locates its install Libraries, so I would like some clarification on this issue with two different versions running. Is there a setup method with Perl to make sure this does not happen? They will probably use CPAN to add the new libraries. How should this be set up? Another issue is they are using a MySQL 4.x version. Not a MySQL 5.x version. On my Mac, I had to load DBI and DBD driver for MySQL 5 and update MySQL to 5.x. But I suppose I can get older versions from CPAN. -- Michael Barto Software Architect LogiQwest Inc. 16458 Bolsa Chica Street, # 15 Huntington Beach, CA  92649 http://www.logiqwest.com/     [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:  714 377 3705 Fax: 714 840 3937 Cell: 714 883 1949 'tis a gift to be simple This e-mail may contain LogiQwest proprietary information and should be treated as confidential.