[rt-users] Why I am recommending 3.6 over 3.8 to my boss

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:04:07AM -0400, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Josh Narins wrote:
> 
> > They are never clobbered with:
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
> 
> so now you need your own private copy of perl in /opt/local as well.... else the package system may clobber your perl modules installed by hand too.  It becomes a very tangled web when you have some stuff manually installed and some by packages, were the manual stuff is intermixed with the packages, like CPAN installation of modules.

No, you can use the system perl and put the modules that you/RT needs
in the /opt/local area. We do that for many different packages already
to isolate them from auto-updates of vendor packages.

Cheers,
Ken