in reply to Re: CPAN fooled me into upgrading
in thread CPAN fooled me into upgrading

I believe there is guaranteed incompatibility

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Re^3: CPAN fooled me into upgrading
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 18, 2008 at 10:32 UTC
    XS modules will most likely have problems. Pure Perl modules have much better chances to work, but will of course not gain any benefit of the new features of perl 5.10.

    CountZero

    A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

      Ok. I got it working. Tracked down the 5.10.0 binaries and libs and deleted them. reinstalled 5.8.8 and logged in again.

      Everything seems in order. I think.

      Thanks for the advice and suggestions.

      -j