Henrik K schrieb: >> sorry, just missed the "relatively recent" statement ;-) >> > > When the system gets old enough that it's not supported officially and you > are forced to manually CPAN fresh modules (and possibly wreak havoc on the > OS), there is no reason not to compile your own perl (or upgrade system) > except lazyness. >
Full Ack - this is what I do on those few ancient boxes. Additionally there are plenty of precompiled packages (sunfreeware, blastwave, ...). > SA is trying to be too supportive for the money it receives. ;-) If you ask > me, just ditch this and all other old baggage for 3.3. If you are not happy, > you are free to keep running 3.2. Some people are even still using 3.1. > Good proposal, imo.