Re: Re: Re: 5.005_03 -> 5.8.0: likely issues?

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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Re: Re: Re: Re: 5.005_03 -> 5.8.0: likely issues? by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Aug 15, 2003 at 17:29 UTC
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. ---- Zak	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 5.005_03 -> 5.8.0: likely issues? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 15, 2003 at 17:47 UTC
don't forget that perl-5.8.1 has some fixes of bugs that exists in perl-5.6.1. It probably have new bugs, but, as long as perl-5.6.1 now less maintained than perl-5.8.x, probabliity to break a code is more in perl-5.6.1, IMHO.	[reply]