Re: where is perl 5.6?
Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> As far as the mooted production systems which require a particular perl
> version are concerned, is there concrete evidence of this being a common
> requirement? Any serious production environment would surely perform
> testing of their *entire* system before dist-upgrading production
> machines. If unresolvable issues with a newer perl version did actually
> arise, nothing precludes them from building the older version in an
> alternate location.
I've certianly used production systems that had a local perl4 install or
so on for legacy code.
Thing is, I don't remember supporting such production systems as being
a consideration at all when we originally moved to supporting multiple
installed versions of perl[1], and I don't remember any complaints from
such production systems before we did that.
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see shy jo
[1] The perl policy talks about wanting to "enable developers to have
more than one Perl on their system", but not about production
systems.
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