CPAN: Getopt::Std

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

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Re: CPAN: Getopt::Std - debug? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 20, 2012 at 13:37 UTC
Getopt::Std is a core module and apparently not dual-lived, so it can't be installed separately from perl. But I find it surprising that it tried to give you a development version of perl, and I don't know what you mean with "a lecture about debugging perl". It might help to post the actual output here. It might be a bug in CPAN, and it might be fixed by upgrading to a newer perl. Come on, perl 5.8.8 is more than 6 years old, time to try something new! Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN: Getopt::Std - debug? by ethrbunny (Monk) on Jan 20, 2012 at 16:32 UTC
5.8.8 is what's being pushed by RHEL 5. Here's the 'lecture' I got: * WHOA THERE!!! * This is an UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT release. The version of this perl5 distribution is 15, 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. Do you really want to continue? n n Okay, bye.	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN: Getopt::Std - debug? by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jan 20, 2012 at 17:04 UTC
What you are seeing is the standard warning when you try to install a nondual-lived core module.	[reply]
Re^4: CPAN: Getopt::Std - debug? by ethrbunny (Monk) on Jan 20, 2012 at 17:41 UTC
Re^5: CPAN: Getopt::Std - debug? by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 20, 2012 at 18:13 UTC
Re: CPAN: Getopt::Std - debug? by runrig (Abbot) on Jan 20, 2012 at 17:57 UTC
If your current version of perl does not have Getopt::Std, then your perl is broken, and you should think about re-installing it, or installing a newer version (maybe in a different location than the system perl).	[reply]
Re: CPAN: Getopt::Std - debug? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 21, 2012 at 03:49 UTC
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/lib/Getopt/Std.pm http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/history/HEAD:/lib/Getopt/Std.pm 2011-11-23 Version bumps 2011-11-23 [RT #36079] Convert ` to '. 2008-09-15 Bump VERSIONs in all non-dual-lived modules that have... 2007-11-23 document return value of Getopt::Std::getopts() 2003-12-30 Bump VERSION numbers [download]	[reply] [d/l]