You should not run different versions of perl.
You (everyone) should keep your software updated and current.

If you are implying to use a 3rd party tool to work with perlish things.. Perl is opensourcy/gnuish type stuff.
'Purchasing' 3rd party tools is sketchy. It's as sketchy as using m$ C#- depending on your point of view on the industry. If by purchasing a 3rd party tool you mean paying for service of some sort.. that's different.

If you mean that your bugzilla and perl and other things are requiring different perls- something's up.
Installing diff perls, sounds like a mess in the making- depending on your level of expertise.
And if you need to ask if you can or how would you- install various perls, then I would suggest you shoudln't be messing with this.

I mean, sure, you'll get answers, you can implement, it will work. Sure. But what will it be like in 6 months, will other admins/devels get caught up in mess with this because of funny deps? Because they are not aware that there are various perls?

Perl does not curerntly implement things like requiring version x of something. You can say at least version x (modules.. ) but not version x exactly. This should be a hint- Yes for you perl gods out there, you have the bit by bit answer here- but for us intermediates, it would do good to have a little instinct.

My personal instinct is find another solution to your problem.

In reply to Re: Multiple instances of Perl by leocharre
in thread Multiple instances of Perl by jabberwocky

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