Re: Perl ugrade

You don't say what processor or OS you have, so it's very difficult to recommend a binary. Perl is easy and fast to build from source, but you need the tools for that; a C compiler, make, and a yacc-alike.

I'd recommend 5.8+, particularly if unicode has any importance to you. Whichever version you choose, you should get the most recent patch level - 5.6.3 or 5.8.4, I think. 5.6.0 has some serious bugs which were quickly fixed in 5.6.1.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re: Perl ugrade by Rina (Initiate) on May 18, 2004 at 17:36 UTC
Sorry...I'm using a Windows 2000 machine. And unicode has no importance to us in the foreseeable future. If we were to use 5.8.4, for example, would we have to modify scripts that were written to run with 5.6? Thanks again	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl ugrade by Zaxo (Archbishop) on May 18, 2004 at 17:53 UTC
Most people seem more or less happy with the ActiveState binary distributions for win32. Cygwin is another, and it has the advantage of a C compiler, a unix-alike shell, and make. Learning to use cygwin is a significant commitment. Most scripts written for 5.6 work fine in 5.8. If you used nothing marked 'deprecated', the worst you will see is warning of newly deprecated misfeatures. The perldelta docs will tell you what has changed. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]