I agree, we had to argue this case with our clients Unix admin team and their security team. They came round to our way of thinking and we built our own perl. In certain industries/companies it's not always as straightforward as you'd think to get upgrades done :)
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yea we are planning to upgrade only. But i am interested to know for my knowledge would it be possible to downgrade the perl version. can you please just let me know whether that option is there. | [reply] |
... for my knowledge would it be possible to downgrade the perl version. can you please just let me know whether that option is there.
I very much doubt that downgrading is a viable option. There is a high probability that, in installing 5.8.0 over the top of 5.8.4, you would end up with a broken Perl installation. I'm not sure that there is any other way of doing a "downgrade" of version. Because Solaris depends to quite a degree on Perl scripts that are now distributed as part of the o/s there's a good chance that you will also end up with a compromised Solaris installation.
If you really must run 5.8.0 the safest policy would be to build and install it in a separate directory from the supplied 5.8.4 so that the two do not clash. However, I would strongly advise that the effort to build 5.8.0 would be much better devoted to testing your scripts under 5.8.4 and ironing out any wrinkles.
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