Re^3: Building a web-based system administration interface in Perl

I can see why that was posted anonymous.

Operating with older versions of Perl isn't about disk space, it's about allowing a complex already-configured system to run an application without performing an operation (such as upgrade) that could render the rest of the system useless and unstable.

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Re^4: Building a web-based system administration interface in Perl by wazoox (Prior) on Apr 08, 2009 at 10:53 UTC
It depends on your definition of "older" :) Clearly I won't consider 5.8.8 "old", it is still the standard perl in Mac OS X 10.5 and certainly some other shipping OSes like RedHat EL, and many OSes that shipped earlier this year or last year. General compatibility with the 5.8 line would probably be easy enough to achieve, but of course older than that hardly makes any sense.	[reply]
Re^4: Building a web-based system administration interface in Perl by Anonymous Monk on Apr 08, 2009 at 11:16 UTC
I can see why that was posted anonymous. Well you're wrong :) Operating with older versions of Perl isn't about disk space, it's about allowing a complex already-configured system to run an application without performing an operation (such as upgrade) that could render the rest of the system useless and unstable. Why would you need to upgrade?	[reply]