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Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 / 5.6 / CPAN
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:56:45 -0700
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From: "Ben Weaver" <bweaver@tranquility.net>

> Are you sure the Modules you want to install need 5.6?
> I've installed many perl modules (including some which exist
> in the ports collection) straight from the tarballs I download from
> cpan.perl.com.  They seem to work fine.

Most don't, certainly. The gotcha appears to be a module called AutoLoader
that is out of date - this is part of the 5.6 tarball, hence the fact that
CPAN downloaded 5.6. One module I need (part of Bundle::XML) appears to
require 5.005, but I think that's already part of 4.2; I just need to 'make
world' to get it.

As much as anything else, I was intrigued by the level to which Perl 5.003
was intertwined with the system. I guess I was expecting it to be simpler to
install different versions of languages as they came out.


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