in reply to 5.005_03 -> 5.8.0: likely issues?

I advice you to wait just a minor bit and upgrade to perl-5.8.1, because it is really close for it to be released, now it's on RC4 (fourth release candidate)

It has many bugs fixed, including Unicode-related bugs.

In case you don't want to wait a bit, then it worth upgrading to 5.8.1-RC4, perl-5.8.0 isn't very stable, at least compared to 5.8.1-RC4

Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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Re: Re: 5.005_03 -> 5.8.0: likely issues?
by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Aug 15, 2003 at 12:46 UTC
    Well, rather than upgrade to 5.8, why not just upgrade to 5.6.1, since that has been stable for a long long time? (All be it that some of the cpan modules are now geared towards 5.8, but if the aim is for stability, we've been running 5.6.1 for a long time now with no problems.)

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    Zak
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      just because I do not understand upgrading from an old version to another old version: once you decided to upgrade and spend time and efforts for it, then it would be better to do this as good as possible, namely upgrade tp latest.

      Yet 5.8.x much more feature-enabled version.

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        5.8.x does have many better features than 5.6. However, because 5.8 is newer than 5.6, there could be some bugs with the distribution, which could be fatal (either security wise or stability wise). It's just a matter of how cautious you want to be. If you have something that you *know* works, then when you upgrade the (perl) engine, you have to re-test the entire suite of software to ensure that you haven't broken anything, which is a serious issue if you are in a production environment. If you're just writing one-time toy scripts, then using a bleeding edge version of software could work to your advantage if it has a feature you can exploit in your favor.

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        Zak
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