Hi, I've been given the responsibility to rebuild a web server for an application we use. I'm using RHEL 3.0 for the OS and for now, I've taken the default installed Perl, v5.8.0.

Our application relies on some perl modules that are not looking compatible to v5.8, eperl imparticular. The current server runs fine with 5.005_03.

So my question, is version 5.005_03 still safe to use? If so, I'd just rather remove 5.8 and install 5.005_03. We don't need any functionality that 5.8 may offer as the app is no longer being updated, just bug fixed.

Also, if I may, following are the modules we use for our app. If anyone sees problems with any of these and the versions I'm using, please point that out too. Some of the names may not be quite right, these are what I was told we use.

Thank You! 
Perl            5.005_03
Digest.MD5      2.16
MIME-Base64     2.12
URI             1.17
Net-FTP-Common  2.28
HTML-Parser     3.28
HTML-Tagset     3.03
libwww-perl     5.69
Net_SSLEAY      1.07
CGI             2.56
eperl           2.2.14
Java JDK        1.18
IO-Socket       0.8
KRB5            1.1
libnet          0.10.11
Net::FTP        ? - is this the same as net-ftp-common?
Perl_LDAP       0.2401 - not sure if this is a perl module

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Thanks!

Edited by Chady -- fixed formatting.

In reply to Is 5.005_03 still safe? by cybler

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