[rt-users] Perl 5.8.0

[Rainer Duffner]

Autrijus Tang said:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:46:11PM -0000, Dave Barter wrote:
>> My question is, "Is it as simple as changing the first line of webmux.pl
>> to #!/usr/local/bin/perl or do I have to edit the header of EVERY perl
>> file related to RT "
>
> You'd need to rebuild mod_perl with Perl 5.8.0, and run
> sbin/rt-test-dependencies again with Perl 5.8.0; that's about it.
>
> Also, 5.8.2 is recommended both for general stability, and unicode
> operations (which can be around 10x faster).


Hm. I guess in FreeBSD-land (and pretty much elsewhere, too), when going
from 5.8.0 to 5.8.2 I'd have to re-install all of the p5-* ports to make
use of the new version, right ?
In addition to mod_perl.



cheers,
Rainer
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