Regardless of which version you are changing to/from you will always need to run all your tests on your scripts again. You do have a complete set of tests, don't you? If you don't then now might be a good time to write them.

You should also carry out a sequence of parallel running with both versions - there should be no problem with having two versions installed provided your #! lines and/or your PATHs are correct.

Why so old versions? 5.8.4 is at least seven years old and there is a lot of really cool stuff in the latest releases. Many people stick with 5.8.8, and that is pretty stable, but to go for some abritary maintenance release seems strange.

In reply to Re: version change on solaris by cdarke
in thread version change on solaris by krishnapriya

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