Not As Clever As I Thought I Was

[Dave Cross]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:39:38 +0200, Alexander Apprich
<a.apprich at science-computing.de> wrote:
> 
> Dave Cross wrote:
> >
> > 2/ Why isn't there a Perl 5.8.5 rpm that works with the FC2 release?
> 
> Don't have much of an answer for you, but is there a reason not using
> ActiveState's ActivePerl?
> http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Linux/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.4.810-i686-linux.tar.gz
> 
> Havn't tried it myself on Linux (I develop with Perl on Windows), but
> maybe it's worth a try...

Well, it's 5.8.4 instead of 5.8.5 for a start :)

If I was that concerned, I could just build Perl 5.8.5 from source.
But that would also mean building my own mod_perl. And that's a can of
worms that I'd like to keep firmly closed.

I decided a year or so ago that wherever possible I'd stick with rpms
supplied by my distribution. Generally that makes life much simpler.

Dave...