Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 19:24:10 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: perl -> perl5? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970407192409.00c81ce8@mixcom.com>
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At 01:05 PM 4/7/97 +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote: >Well, I'm running all my machines with /bin/perl symlinked to perl5 >(started with 2.1.0, but went through 2.1.5,6,7 on about 4 machines). >Never had any perl problems, but I'm not sure that I looked well enough. Just about the same thing, no problems either. >perl isn't completly backward compatible, but if you follow the >"recommended" (i.e. camel book) style of writing, it pretty much makes >it so. I do remember some thread about such problems in -questions about >half a year ago, but I think it wasn't with any standard perl scripts >that come with FreeBSD. Since perl4 is what you get on install, even on 2.2.1, and most *want* perl5, I add it. At least the package add does not replace it, as there is at least one person that needs perl4 for something, so I 'cp perl perl4' and someone that needs perl4 can change the header. And there is only one person with this problem, out of several hundred. Not sure myself what changed, but I think it was a syntax change. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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