[Chicago-talk] Installing another Perl on same box

[Steven Lembark]

Andy Lester wrote:
 >
 > On May 2, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Jay Strauss wrote:
 >
 >> That would be "bad"?  If I'm using the same Perl version 5.8.4 on both
 >> installs.  Why would re-using pure perl modules be bad?  The INSTALL
 >> makes it
 >> seem acceptable and preferable.
 >
 > if they're pure perl, it shouldn't matter.  I was concerned about
 > anything with C interfaces.

It is usually a bad idea to mix threaded and unthreaded,
even if the stuff isn't C. One reason is that you might
end up installing some versions of modules in different
places to accomodate threading bugs, and certianly don't
want to overwrite you CPAN configs, etc.

The modules don't take up all that much space (by today's
standards): having a second copy is unlikely to break
your machine.


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