[mplspm]: Any reason to keep old versions around?

Craig S. Wilson craig at wavefront.net
Fri Feb 27 16:52:09 CST 2004


I needed to update one of my systems to the latest Perl in an attempt to 
get RT 3.0 running.  I wanted to be sure that I kept a copy of the current 
Perl just in case, though, so I looked in my /usr/local/bin to see if I had 
a copy.

1-%ls -lrt /usr/local/bin/perl*
-rwxrwxrwx   1 craig    other     425984 Jul 16  1993 /usr/local/bin/perl4.036
-rwxr-xr-x   1 craig    staff     417792 Jun 27  1994 /usr/local/bin/perl4.003
-rwxr-xr-x   1 craig    other     581632 Jan  2  1995 /usr/local/bin/perl5.000
-rw-r--r--   1 craig    other     545848 Oct 20  1997 /usr/local/bin/perl5.002
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         25 Jan 31  1998 
/usr/local/bin/perl5.003 -> /opt/LWperl/bin/perl5.003
-rwxr-xr-x   1 craig    other     704112 Jan 10  1999 
/usr/local/bin/perl5.00502
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other     730316 May 26  1999 
/usr/local/bin/perl5.00503
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      897600 Apr 13  2000 /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0
-rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin       927780 Apr 26  2001 /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1
-rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin       927780 Apr 26  2001 /usr/local/bin/perl

It is interesting to track the size change over time.  Plus it is kind of 
neat to have over 11 years of Perl's on a computer.
It is probably more like 12-13 years, but I must have reset the timestamp 
on the 4.003 version at one time.

7-%./perl4.003 -v
This is perl, version 4.0
$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.1 $$Date: 91/04/11 17:49:05 $
Patch level: 3
Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, Larry Wall


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Craig S. Wilson              craig at wavefront.net
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