[rt-users] dedicated perl install

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:56, Scott Courtney wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:10, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > You could install a different copy, but RHEL4 has a suitable
> > version and just needs a lot of extra modules that should
> > not break anything else. The only one you might be concerned
> > about is HTML::Mason. 
> 
> The other one thing you should be concerned about is RHEL's updates that
> broke weak references in the Perl interpreter, thereby breaking the CPAN
> module Tree::Simple, which in turn broke the module DBIx::SearchBuilder,
> which in turn broke RT.
> 
> For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse...well,
> you get the idea.

CPAN is a fairly fragile beast with or without distribution
updates, considering that most of it is interdependent yet managed
independently by different people unaware of concurrent changes.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com