in reply to 5.53 vs 5.6 vs 6

  1. 5.005_03
  2. I've heard people having problems w/ perl 5.6.0 and mod_perl so I've shyed away from it for now.
  3. It's tricky to install your own perl w/o horking debian. I don't like how they use their packaging system to duplicate the functionality of CPAN, but oh well. I do have a perl 5.6.0 installation into a home directory of a user account that I use for testing out weird stuff, though.