Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 13:05:11 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: perl -> perl5? Message-ID: <3348C6D7.56A4@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970406183047.7640D-100000@localhost>
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Doug White wrote: > > Hello... > > Is there any problems with installing perl5 on FreeBSD 2.1.5 systems and > making it the system default? Ie, will it break adduser and other perl4 > scripts? > > Thanks for any information. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major 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. 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. Anyhow, this is just my $0.02. Nadav PS, If you do find that something breaks in perl5, it may be a good reason to fix it so that it works both way. Usually, it's not too hard.
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