Odd version of perl

natol44 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings! Installing a new module in CPAN I get this message: First let's make sure your kit is complete. Checking...
Looks good...

*** WHOA THERE!!! ***

This is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT release.
The version of this perl5 distribution is 13, that is, odd, (as opposed to even) and that signifies a development release. If you want a maintenance release, you want an even-numbered version.

Do ***NOT*** install this into production use. Data corruption and crashes are possible.

It is most seriously suggested that you do not continue any further unless you want to help in developing and debugging Perl.

If you *still* want to build perl, you can answer 'y' now, or pass -Dusedevel to Configure.

I decided to stop.

Perl was installed by the datacenter where I rent a VPS. What do you recommend to do? Re-installing Perl? (the installed release is 5.13.9)

Thanks

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Re: Odd version of perl by vkon (Curate) on Feb 15, 2011 at 09:18 UTC
just get ordinary release, i.e. 5.12.3, instead of developer release. 5.13.9 will eventually evolve into 5.14.0, which should be in April	[reply]
Re: Odd version of perl by bart (Canon) on Feb 15, 2011 at 09:40 UTC
The datacenter made a mistake, they installed a development (beta) release of Perl.	[reply]
Re: Odd version of perl by chrestomanci (Priest) on Feb 15, 2011 at 11:48 UTC
To be clear, did you install this version of perl, or did you rent access to a server where it was allready installed? Is this version of perl the default that gets run if you just type `perl` at a command prompt, or does it only get run if you set your environment or suchlike in a special way. Unless you asked specificaly for it, if the datacenter admins installed an unstable version of perl as the default on a system they are renting to you then I would be very worried about their competency. Perhaps they also forgot to setup the backups correctly, or to put fuel in backup generator. (As happend recently at the Co-lo facility that my company uses). If you are running anything important on this server, I would start looking for an alternative hosting provider. Even if there is nothing important, I would only continue to use them if they are very cheap, and I had comprehensive backups.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Odd version of perl by zwon (Abbot) on Feb 15, 2011 at 12:58 UTC
`First let's make sure your kit is complete. Checking... Looks good... * WHOA THERE!!! * This is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT release.` [download] You can see this message when you trying to install perl itself, not CPAN package. Are you sure you have perl-5.13.9 installed? It seems rather unusual for hosting to install development version of perl released less than one month ago. Could you give us more information how did you get that message. Also output of: `perl -v` and `which perl` would be of interest.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Odd version of perl by natol44 (Sexton) on Feb 17, 2011 at 14:19 UTC
Thanks for your replies, here is what is happening In fact the installed release is 5.8.8! What happened when I tried to install (using cpan) File::Find is that cpan itself tries to compile Perl 5.13.9. "It's most likely a dependency of the current version of File::Find" said the datacenter support. And "This isn't something we can troubleshoot." So what to do? File::Find cannot be installed? Or an older release but is that possible thru cpan? Thanks!	[reply]
Re^3: Odd version of perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 17, 2011 at 14:20 UTC
You already have File::Find, as it comes with every version of Perl. There is no need to upgrade it separately from Perl.	[reply]
Re^3: Odd version of perl by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2011 at 15:10 UTC
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/history/HEAD:/lib/File/Find.pm	[reply]
Re: Odd version of perl by Anonymous Monk on Feb 15, 2011 at 09:23 UTC
Quick! Grab a rock and bash it good :) Read more... (302 Bytes)	[reply]