Greetings fellow monks,

I hope that some of you could enlighten me on the following:

If I have a module that depends on C code like DBD::ODBC that is compiled for Perl 5.8, will that compiled version of the module still work in Perl 5.10 if I copy it from a Perl 5.8 lib directory to a Perl 5.10 lib directory?

The reason that I am wondering is that we have started to add all the CPAN modules that we use to our source code repository. This has removed some annoying problem we had with installations of modules to a site/lib directory and also provides a much better control over versioning and when to upgrade modules. However we have so far only added pure Perl modules to the repository and not those dependent on compiled code. I now plan to also added the compiled code the repository, but I need to know if there are any compatibility problems first.

In reply to Compiled modules compatible across Perl versions by oyse

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